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Out-of-print CIVIL WAR BOOK:
THE BATTLE OF CLOYD'S MOUNTAIN:
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Raid
April 29 - May 19, 1864,
by Howard R. McManus, H. E. Howard Inc., 1989, 107 pages.
"For 125 years, the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain fought between Dublin and
Pearisburg, Virginia, has lain shrouded in obscurity.
Overshadowed by larger armies and more consequential campaigns, it failed to receive public
recognition then, as it fails now. Most knowledge of the battle died with its veterans, who left
only rare, scattered memoirs. As local tradition degenerated into error, the very battle site faded
from memory.
Now, carefully researched maps and moment by moment description, reclaim from oblivion, the
shock and fury that was the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain: A Union raid--unprecedented in daring
and execution, Maj. Gen. George C. Crook's brigades, eager for battle, but cut off from all
possible retreat by a 200 mile wall of mountains; a Confederate stand--gallant, yet controversial,
Brig. Gen. Albert G. Jenkin's hastily assembled army, badly outnumbered, but with infantry and
artillery entrenched across formidable terrain.
The frenzy of battle rising to a climactic moment: For the South--initial victory collapsing into
bitter chaos with Jenkin's mortal wound, McCausland's panicked orders, and final retreat; for the
North--dispirited rout of half their army transformed by one desperate charge into breakthrough
and complete victory.
Through these pages, the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
Raid vividly emerge from letters, diaries, official reports, and personal reminiscences of common
soldiers as they bivouacked in icy rain, slogged doggedly through knee deep mud, and grappled in
deadly hand to hand combat with the enemy."
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