A memoir from 1988 or so about Peter Svenson, a visual artist, who buys a farms in the Shenadoah Valley that just so happens to be one of the sites of a series of battles around the city of Harrisonburg, VA (in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley and home to James Madison University). The Battle of Cross Keys saw JC Fremont for the North meeting up with Jackson, Ewell, and Trimble of the South and being turned back, despite superiors numbers (a battle result […]
Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground
Battlefield by Peter Svenson