Quint Ryan T. Quint

Dranesville (eBook, ePUB)

A Northern Virginia Town in the Crossfire of a Forgotten Battle, December 20, 1861

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After the guns of Manassas fell silent, the opposing armies grappled for position wondering what would come next. Popular history has us believe it was "All quiet along the Potomac." Reality was altogether different.The fall and early winter of 1861 was a hotbed of activity that culminated in the December combat at Dranesville. The Union victory, although small when measured against what was to come, was sorely needed after the string of defeats at Bull Run, Wilson's Creek, and Ball's Bluff; it also helped shape many of the players in the bloody years to come.Ryan Quint's Dranesville: A Northern Virginia Town in the Crossfire of a Forgotten Battle, December 20, 1861, is the first full history of that narrow but critically important slice of the war. No one knew what was coming, but soon civilians (sympathetic to both sides) were thrown into a spreading civil war of their own as neighbor turned on neighbor. In time, this style of warfare, on the home front and on the battlefield, reached the town of Dranesville in Fairfax County.This mostly forgotten story uses overlooked or underused sources to sweep readers along from the White House and Charleston's Secession Hall to midnight ambushes and the climactic Dranesville action. A host of characters and commanders that would become household names cut their teeth during these months, including Generals J. E. B. Stuart and Edward Ord. The men of the Pennsylvania Reserves saw their baptism of fire at Dranesville, setting the Keystone State soldiers on a path to becoming one of the best combat units of the entire war. Though eclipsed by larger and bloodier battles, Dranesville remained a defining moment for many of its participants-soldiers and civilians alike-for the rest of their lives.Here for the first time, shared through the eyes of those who lived it, is the story of Dranesville and the early war in Northern Virginia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Savas Beatie
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611216943
• Artikelnr.: 72345732

Autorenporträt

Ryan Quint is a native of Maine and earned his degree in history from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. He has worked in the field of public history, including at the George Washington Foundation, Colonial Williamsburg, and the National Park Service. Ryan has been involved with Emerging Civil War since 2013, and his first book, Determined to Stand and Fight: The Battle of Monocacy, was published by Savas Beatie in 2017 as part of the Emerging Civil War series (emergingcivilwar.com).