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A History of the Laurel Brigade: Originally the Ashby Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia and Chew's Battery

A History of the Laurel Brigade: Originally the Ashby Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia and Chew's Battery

N. McDonald, William

Paperback

Military BiographiesGeneral World HistoryOther Wars

ISBN10: 9353608546
ISBN13: 9789353608545
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 15 2019
Pages: 574
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Charging through the smoke of the Shenandoah, the Laurel Brigade rode at the heart of Confederate cavalry battles in Virginia. War remembered from the saddle. In A History of the Laurel Brigade, William N. McDonald, an officer who served with the unit, offers vivid civil war military history of the famed Ashby Cavalry and Chew's Battery of the Army of Northern Virginia. Drawing on personal experience and contemporary testimony, he follows their service through the Shenandoah Valley campaigns, the Stonewall Jackson campaigns, and operations under J. E. B. Stuart's cavalry command, portraying men, horses, marches, skirmishes and charges with striking immediacy. The result is a classic confederate cavalry unit history and a rich civil war primary source rooted in place, memory, and soldierly comradeship. First published in the early twentieth century, McDonald's narrative has long been prized by civil war history students, serious researchers, and collectors of civil war books for its close-up view of American Civil War Virginia and the inner life of a legendary mounted command. It stands as a cornerstone of 1860s southern military history, preserving the perspective of those who rode and fought in the Laurel Brigade itself. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, this handsome heritage edition speaks to casual readers discovering the war's human drama as well as to connoisseurs seeking an authoritative, enduring account of a storied Confederate cavalry brigade.

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