Tempest At Cool Spring

Exhausted from weeks of incessant campaigning, Lt. Gen. Jubal Early’s 8,000 Army of the Valley veterans hoped that Sunday, July 17, 1864, might afford them an opportunity for some much- needed rest. Some of them had been on the march since late June, when they left the Petersburg lines and headed into the Shenandoah Valley …

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