Author Jonathan Noyalas's study offers not only a history of an overlooked engagement in the oft-contested Shenandoah Valley, but--as Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan notes in the book's Foreword--"a keen reminder that Civil War battles are rich laboratories in which to observe the human experience in all its complexity."
Decades after the Civil War's end, Confederate veteran John Alexander Stikeleather reflected on his experiences...