Henry kyd douglas i rode with stonewall5/22/2023 ![]() Camp-following requires some concomitant good eating, or fly-fishing, and the Shenandoah offers both, as well as the usual distractions of hiking, canoeing, 'rooming (collecting mushrooms) and searching for overpriced objects in A-word shops. ![]() Jackson's little army snaked its way through riverine country with some epicurean possibilities, a great advantage then and now, since battlefields alone don't quite do it for me. I wondered what it would be like to follow the route taken by the most famous lemon-sucker ever to be a general. His was a masterful, bloody blitz of such cunning that it has been studied ever since by tacticians, among them Rommel and Patton. Forget Antietam, Gettysburg and the siege of Richmond: For physical beauty and sheer audacity in battle, nothing equals the Shenandoah Valley campaign of Stonewall Jackson, the "pious blue-eyed killer" who pushed his men so hard in the spring of 1862 that their shoes fell apart. Washington is a mere hundred miles from the most spectacular Civil War terrain. ![]()
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