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Brigadier General John D. Imboden: Confederate Commander in the Shenandoah

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” John D. Imboden is the most important but ceaselessly lost sight of figure in Civil War history. With only limited militia training, the Virginia lawyer and flesh presser rose to the rank of brigadier general within the Confederate Army and commanded the Shenandoah Valley District, which had been created for Stonewall Jackson. Imboden organized and led the Staunton Artillery within the capture of the U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry. He participated within the First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas and organized a cavalry command that fought alongside Stonewall Jackson in his Shenandoah Valley Campaign. The Jones/Imboden Raid into West Virginia cut the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and ravaged the Kanawha Valley petroleum fields. Imboden covered the Confederate withdrawal from Gettysburg and later led cavalry accompanying Jubal Early in his operations against Philip Sheridan in Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Imboden completed his war service in charge of Confederate prisons in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Spencer C. Tucker fully examines the life of this Confederate cavalry commander, including analysis of Imboden’s own post-war writing, and explores lost sight of facets of his life, such as his involvement within the Confederate prison system, his later efforts to restore the economic life of his home state of Virginia by developing its natural resources, and his founding of the city of Damascus, which he was hoping to make into a new iron and steel center. Spencer C. Tucker, John Biggs Professor of Military History on the Virginia Military Institute, is the creator of Vietnam and the creator or editor of a number of other books on military and naval history. He lives in Lexington, Virginia.

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