The Valley Campaigns; Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While 
Between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley During the War of the States,
by Thomas Almond Ashby

Published: New York, The Neale Publishing Company, 1914

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                                THE VALLEY
                                CAMPAIGNS

                Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant
                      While Between the Lines in the
                         Shenandoah Valley During
                          the War of the States

                                    By
                      THOMAS A. ASHBY, M. D., LL. D.
        AUTHOR OF "LIFE OF TURNER ASHBY," PUBLISHED BY THIS HOUSE,
                            AND OF OTHER BOOKS


                                 NEW YORK
                       THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY
                                   1914

                            Copyright, 1914, by
                       THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY




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TO 
THE HOME GUARD OF THE SOUTH 
Who bore the anxieties, the sorrows, and the privations of war with 
courage and cheerfulness, and who tilled the soil and raised the crops 
that supported the Southern armies in the field; and 
To 
THE FAITHFUL NEGRO SERVANTS 
Who remained loyal to their masters during the war this book is dedicated. 

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PREFACE

   IN this book the author has attempted to tell a story of the Civil War 
as related by one who was an eye-witness of the facts. The story is told 
from the standpoint of a boy, who here gives observations and relates 
experiences that are not usually recounted by the historian. 

   The incidents connected with the story are located almost entirely in 
the Valley of Virginia, - a region that was a picturesque and important 
theater of military operations during the four years of strife, and that 
suffered as much from the effects of the war as any section of the South. 
The trials, sufferings, and privations of the people who remained at home 
and were non-combatants are presented in this chronicle as frankly and as 
truthfully as possible; for the author has tried to be correct in every 
statement that he has made, and just in every opinion he has expressed and 
in every criticism he has advanced. 

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CONTENTS
PREFACE . . . . . 7 
I. THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY . . . . . 11 
II. THE JOHN BROWN INSURRECTION AND ITS EFFECTS . . . . . 17 
III. VIRGINIA SECEDES. THE WAR BEGINS . . . . . 24 
IV. GENERAL TURNER ASHBY . . . . . 32 
V. AN INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE. HOSPITALS IN OUR VILLAGE . . . . . 53 
VI. VISIT TO MANASSAS. IN WINTER QUARTERS . . . . . 61 
VII. FEDERAL INVASION OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY. BATTLE OF KERNSTOWN. STORMY 
DAYS . . . . . 70 
VIII. FEDERAL TROOPS IN THE VILLAGE. THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH . . . . . 78 
IX. THE SOUTHERN WOMAN. THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF OUR PEOPLE . . . . . 95 
X. THE VALLEY CAMPAIGN. UNDER FIRE . . . . . 111 
XI. WITHIN THE FEDERAL LINES. THE BATTLE OF PORT REPUBLIC . . . . . 127 
XII. FEDERAL OFFICERS IN MY HOME . . . . . 143 
XIII. SUCCESS OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA . . . . . 153 
XIV. EVENTS IN OUR VILLAGE IN THE SUMMER OF '62 . . . . . 165 

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XV. STONEWALL JACKSON AND THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN . . . . . 176 
XVI. FALL AND WINTER OF 1862 . . . . . 185 
XVII. WINTER PLEASURES AND DANGERS . . . . . 196 
XVIII. BOYISH SPORTS. VISIT TO RICHMOND . . . . . 206 
XIX. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOME OF THE LEADERS OF THE '60's. THE CONFEDERATE 
POLICY AND THE FEDERAL . . . . . 217 
XX. THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1863 . . . . . 227 
XXI. THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN . . . . . 240 
XXII. THE FALL AND WINTER OF 1863 . . . . . 254 
XXIII. ROSSER'S RIDE AROUND MEADE'S ARMY . . . . . 263 
XXIV. THE MILITARY OPERATIONS OF 1864 . . . . . 275 
XXV. MOSBY AND HIS MEN . . . . . 288 
XXVI. THE SPRING OF 1865 - THE SURRENDER . . . . . 301 
XXVII. THE OLD FAMILY SERVANT . . . . . 309 
XXVIII. REBUILDING THE WASTE PLACES . . . . . 314