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Battle Tested

Released December 2004

invites us to examine the impact of Lincoln’s momentous announcement at the moment of its creation

Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, May 1864 (Charles R. Knight - CWC) patagonia and illustration across the pastValley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Campaign, May 1864 by Charles Knight Charles R. Knights 'Valley Thunder' is the first full length account in more than three decades to examine the combat at New Market on May 15, 1864the battle that opened the pivotal 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who set in motion the wide ranging operation to subjugate the South in 1864, intended to attack the