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Book Review


Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861–1865. By Richard R. Duncan. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xxii, 380 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3217-3.)
This excellent book joins the already rich collection of Civil War community studies and points the way for new scholarship that takes a holistic approach to the study of warfare and civil conflict. Winchester, Virginia, located at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, changed hands repeatedly during the war and encapsulates in microcosm many of the war's experiences. Richard R. Duncan has mined the rich material left by Winchester citizens and soldiers, residents and occupiers alike, to craft an important and insightful study. . . .
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