Defend the Valley: A Shenandoah Family in the Civil War

xv, [7], 441 pp. "Excerpts from the journals, letters, and memoirs of the Barton and Jones families of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley provide a firsthand glimpse of ordinary people caught up in the hardships of the Civil War." CONTENTS: Valley at Peace: The Family; Valley At War: April-July 1861. Harpers Ferry. First Battle of Manassas; August-December 1861: On the Potomac and Back in the Valley; January-May 1862: Beth Romney Campaign. First Federal Occupation of Winchester. Battle of Kernstown; McDowell Campaign; May-June 1862: First Battle of Winchester; Battle of Port Republic; Summer 1862: Wichester Reoccupied; Battle of Gaine's Mill; September-December 1862: Winchester Returned to the Confederacy; Fredericksburg Campaign; January-May 1863: Winter Quarters; Letters from Occupied Winchester and Field; Chancellorsville; May-July 1863: More Letters under Occupation; Second Battle of Winchester; Liberation and Family Reunited; July-September 1863: Winchester Between the Lines; October-December 1863: Family at Springdale, Campaigning in the Wilderness; January-June 1864: Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania; Battle of the New Market; July-September 1864: Early's Valley Campaign; Third Battle of Winchester; October 1864 - April 1865: Last Battles in the Valley; Final Campaign in Eastern Virginia; Devastated Valley: Family Dispersed.