Keywords: The Valley Campaigns, Thomas Almond Ashby, Civil War, History
The Valley Campaigns Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley During the War of the States: by Thomas Almond Ashby
TO
THE HOME GUARD OF THE SOUTH
Who bore the anxieties, the sorrows, and the privations of war with
courage and cheerfulness, and who tilled the soil and raised the
crops that supported the Southern armies in the field; and
To
THE FAITHFUL NEGRO SERVANTS
Who remained loyal to their masters during the war this book is
dedicated.
PREFACE
IN this book the author has attempted to tell a story of the Civil
War as related by one who was an eye-witness of the facts. The
story is told from the standpoint of a boy, who here gives
observations and relates experiences that are not usually recounted
by the historian.
The incidents connected with the story are located almost entirely
in the Valley of Virginia, - a region that was a picturesque and
important theater of military operations during the four years of
strife, and that suffered as much from the effects of the war as any
section of the South. The trials, sufferings, and privations of the
people who remained at home and were non-combatants are
presented in this chronicle as frankly and as truthfully as possible;
for the author has tried to be correct in every statement that he has
made, and just in every opinion he has expressed and in every
