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The book centered around the Battle of Cedar Creek where Phil Sheridan lost and won a battle all in one da. The book was well written and very easy to consumed.

The book centered around the Battle of Cedar Creek where Phil Sheridan lost and won a battle all in one day. That left poor Jubal Early as the man who won and lost the same battle in the single day. It was generally geared for the public consumption since nearly half of the book was geared toward giving background information prior to the battle itself. Of 350 pages of printed narrative, only 150 dealt with the battle itself.

Guns of Cedar Creek" by Thomas Lewis is one of the most remarkable books on a Civil War battle in the last twenty five years. The story of the battle is dramatic enough and Lewis tells it well. He also knows the geography and the layout of the region better than most historians. But where Lewis truly shines is with his biographical sketches of the leading commanders. Lewis offers unforgettable portraits of Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, John Gordon, George A. Custer, George Crook and others and how they shaped the battle

The Battle of Cedar Creek not only decided final control o. .Thomas A. Lewis is a veteran journalist (National Wildlife, Smithsonian magazines) and broadcaster (Voice of America) who has written six non-fiction books, two of which received favorable critical attention nationwide.

The Battle of Cedar Creek not only decided final control o. Lewis is a veteran journalist (National Wildlife, Smithsonian magazines) and broadcaster (Voice of America) who has written six non-fiction books, two of which received favorable critical attention nationwide

Here, Lewis (The Shenandoah in Flames) offers a lively narrative history of what was once one of the .

Here, Lewis (The Shenandoah in Flames) offers a lively narrative history of what was once one of the best-remembered small combats of the Civil War, the Oct. 19, 1864, Battle of Cedar Creek. Through the end of the 19th century, Americans recognized the fight at Cedar Creek as a momentous affair that created a hero out of Gen. Philip Sheridan. Prior to this Shenandoah Valley battle, Sheridan had fought his way up the promotion ladder by associating his name with a number of gallant Civil War actions.

A monument on the Cedar Creek battlefield commemorates Ramseur's . Lewis, The Guns of cedar Creek (New York: Laurel, 1998).

A monument on the Cedar Creek battlefield commemorates Ramseur's death in the Belle Grove House. By chance, Henry A. Dupont, his friend from West Point, was present at Cedar Creek, and years later described his death bed scene. In MacKinlay Kantor's 1961 alternate history book If the South Had Won the Civil War, Ramseur appears as one of several prominent people who would have campaigned for the abolition of slavery in an independent Confederacy and eventually achieved it by 1885. American Civil War portal.

The Guns of Cedar Creek. The climactic battle of the 1864 Valley campaign. Harper & Row, 1988.

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THE GUNS OF CEDAR CREEK By Thomas A. Lewis. magnificently and died of their wounds soon after the guns of Cedar Creek fell silent. But it is Sheridan, with the light of battle in his eyes, who dominates the story.

Lewis (The Guns of Cedar Creek, 1988) attempts-with little success-to give a fresh view of the youthful George Washington. To Lewis, Washington was & ordinary young man-vain, burning with. For King and Country: The Maturing of George Washington, 1748-1760. Duffy offers the life of Civil War naval master David Farragut, who was 60 at the time of the conflict�s onset yet proved to be the most energetic and courageous of the Union�s.

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Thomas Allison Lewis, American Writer. M C. Trustee Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation; chairman Civil War Society, 1989-1993; founder, convener Commonwealth Coalition. With United States Army, 1966-1968. 1988 Harper and Row hardcover, Thomas A. Lewis (The Shenandoah in Flames: The Valley Campaign of 1864).