Bloody path to the Shenandoah
Subtitle: fighting with the Union VI Corps in the American Civil War
By: by Stewart Judson Petrie.
Contributors: Judson, George Earl, d. 1864.
Publisher: Burd Street Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Shippensburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Judson, George Earl, d. 1864; Judson family; United States. Army. Connecticut Artillery Regiment, 2nd (1863-1865); Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864; Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864; Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864; Soldiers -- Connecticut -- Biography; Connecticut -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; Southbury (Conn.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Drawing from the primary resource of George Judson's diaries from 1863 and 1864, Stewart Petrie incorporates other information concerning the Union VI Corps to paint this picture of Civil War life. The unending problems of long marches, heat exhaustion, poor food, and illness are punctuated with episodes of brutal warfare and stark terror. The Union VI Corps participated in such hard-fought battles as the Wilderness, North Anna River, the slaughter at Cold Harbor, and most notably at Cedar Creek."

"The battle of Cedar Creek is described in great detail with movements and tactics of both armies as a background to the accounts offered by George Judson's diary entries. The fact that an apparent overwhelming victory by the forces of Jubal Early was later that day turned into a resounding victory by Union forces that included the VI Corps is well known because of Thomas Buchanan's poem "Sheridan's Ride." The Union VI Corps would continue the struggle to their final destiny at Appomattox Court House."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based chiefly on the two diaries of George Earl Judson of Woodbury, Connecticut, during the Civil War.