The Battle of Piedmont and Hunter's Raid on Staunton: The 1864 Shenandoah Campaign Paperback – Illustrated, 31 March 2011

Patchans style of writing is superb and his depth of research is impeccable.

Impressive scholarly research has provided us this well-written and interesting book. I enjoyed every aspect of the book, but even more as research on my kinfolk. My GGG-grandfather was captured here (45th VA Indpndt Bn), and the author's insight provided us a wealth of information.BTW, he was sent (as the author correctly reports) by train to the Indianapolis prison camp. He escaped 6 months later, turned up at home in KY for 2 weeks, then reported back to his unit and was carried on the rolls until the end of the war. Prison records show him as Died of Wounds, however - they never reported escapes :-) The Yankee prison doctor - my wife's GGG-grandfather!A great piece of research, and a fine read for history buffs. Highly recommended.

Great book! It has genealogical information as well as information about the battle. It helped to fill in areas of heretofore unknown activities of my great grandfather who fought in this battle.

This book is very well researched and written from start to finish! I loved it, and I'm not a book reader.I would highly recomend this book to anyone who is interested in the Shenandoah Valley and it's role in the Civil War!

Nicely written. Excellent job of editing. Maps could be a little larger.