WILSON-KAUTZ RAID BATTLE STAUNTON RIVER BRIDGE - Halifax Charlotte, VA Civil War

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Destroy the Junction
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The Wilson-Kautz Raid & The Battle for Staunton River Bridge
(June 21, 1864 - July 1, 1864)
by Captain Greg Eanes, USAFR
Captain Greg Eanes, USAFR, has written a history of the Wilson-Kautz Raid:  ‘Destroy The Junction’—The Wilson-Kautz Raid & The Battle for the Staunton River Bridge, June 21, 1864 to July 1, 1864.  He has used an eyewitness format with relatively little exposition linking and explaining matters.  His four maps help the reader visualize the raid and three of its four principal fights—Nottoway Court House, Staunton River Bridge, and First Reams Station.  The book contains an impressive amount of original research, and makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the raid.  Captain Eanes delves into the corporate reports of the railroads involved to demonstrate that it took the Confederates only about three weeks to put the railroads back in action, not the nine weeks Wilson claimed was reported to him after the war.  Captain Eanes puts his analysis of the raid in an appendix.  He brings an intelligence officer’s perspective to the raid.
-from a review by John Horn
A First Edition #194 of 1000, published by H.E. Howard in 1999 for the Virginia Civil War Battles and Leaders Series. Very good condition.
Hardcover, 6
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x 9", 222 pages, illustrated, indexed
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