num_pages: 174
description: Describes how in December 1863 Averall and his 2500 US soldiers plunged into the mountains of western Virginia to cut the 204-mile Virginia and Tennessee Railroad in order to disrupt Confederate communications between the eastern and western theaters of war and cut the supply line of Confederates besieging Knoxville. Annotation c. Book News Inc. Portland OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: General William Averell's Salem Raid: Breaking the Knoxville Supply Line
publisher: Burd Street Pr