2022-05-03 BCWRT - Phillip Greenwalt - "If this Valley is Lost..."
In the spring of 1862, General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson successfully spearheaded the Shenandoah Valley Campaign charged with defending western Virginia from an invasion by Union troops. At that time, he wrote to a staff member, “If this Valley is lost, Virginia is lost.” Two years later, battle returned to the same Shenandoah Valley with Confederate General Jubal Early facing off against Union General Philip Sheridan. The South won the 1862 campaign, and to tell us what happened in the second go-round - and its aftermath - is recognized Civil War historian Phillip Greenwalt.
In the spring of 1862, General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson successfully spearheaded the Shenandoah Valley Campaign charged with defending western Virginia from an invasion by Union troops. At that time, he wrote to a staff member, “If this Valley is lost, Virginia is lost.” Two years later, battle returned to the same Shenandoah Valley with Confederate General Jubal Early facing off against Union General Philip Sheridan. The South won the 1862 campaign, and to tell us what happened in the second go-round - and its aftermath - is recognized Civil War historian Phillip Greenwalt.