The Battle of New Market: May 15, 1864

by Jennings C. Wise

Book Overview

The Battle of New Market was a battle fought on May 15, 1864, in Virginia during Valley Campaigns of 1964 in the American Civil War. A small Confederate army forced Union Major General Franz Sigel and his army out of the Shenandoah Valley. In the spring of 1864, Union commander in chief Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant set in motion a grand strategy designed to press the Confederacy into submission. Control of the strategically important and agriculturally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517002028
• ISBN13: 9781517002022
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"