The Fourth Battle of Winchester
Subtitle: toward a new Civil War paradigm
By: Richard M. McMurry.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Counterfactuals (Logic); Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; Winchester (Va.) -- History, Military -- 19th century.; Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography.
Description: "Students of the Civil War tend to focus attention on the great campaigns and battles that took place in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, a practice that Richard M. McMurry contends has distorted many facets of the war. The July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, for example, came to be widely - if erroneously - regarded as the "decisive battle" and the "turning point" of the war as well as the "high tide" of the Confederacy.

In The Fourth Battle of Winchester: Toward a New Civil War Paradigm, McMurry, using a "counter-factual" account of the 1864 campaigns in Virginia, presents a view of the Civil War from the West - moving from the narrow confines of the Old Dominion to the vast Trans-Appalachian region - and gives the reader a new and far more complete understanding of why and how the war ended in a Union victory and of the roles played by several of the conflict's major actors."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.