Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861--1865During the Civil War, the strategically located town of Winchester, Virginia, suffered from the constant turmoil of military campaigning perhaps more than any other town. Occupied dozens of times by alternating Union and Confederate forces, Winchester suffered through three major battles, including some seventy smaller skirmishes. In his voluminous community study of the town over the course of four tumultuous years, Richard R. Duncan shows that in many ways Winchester's history provides a paradigm of the changing nature of the war. Indeed, Duncan reveals how the town offers a microcosm of the war: slavery collapsed, women assumed control in the absence of men, and civilians vied for authority alongside an assortment of revolving military commanders. |
Contents
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2 The Taste of Humiliation | 43 |
3 Redemption Destruction and Occupation | 91 |
Illustrations follow page | 134 |
General Robert Milroy | 135 |
5 The Chess Game | 169 |
6 Whirling through Winchester | 207 |
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Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861--1865 Richard R. Duncan Limited preview - 2007 |
Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861--1865 Richard R. Duncan No preview available - 2007 |