Title: The Fourth Battle of Winchester
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.
Subjects: Campaigns, Counterfactuals (Logic), Historiography, History, Military History, Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) Civil War, 1861-1865, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Virginia Civil War, 1861-1865, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, campaigns, United states, historiography, Virginia, history, civil war, 1861-1865, West virginia, history, military
Places: Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.), United States, Virginia, Winchester (Va.)
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865