Hilt to Hilt: Life Along the Shenandoah River During the 1864 Fall Campaign

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John Esten Cooke’s novel of the Civil War is set in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and was one of the first fictionalized accounts used to promote the Myth of the Lost Cause. His romanticized version of the past twists, and sometimes even completely breaks, the historical facts in order to justify the South’s rebellious acts of treason during the Civil War

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