Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washington

by Joseph Judge

Book Overview

Chronicles the Confederate advance on Washington, led by Jubal Early, which included the battle at Monocacy River and fighting in the District of Columbia where President Lincoln came under fire at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883522005
• ISBN13: 9781883522001
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Howell Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

great coverage of the Confederate's last big invasion

Season of Fire proves to be a well written and well researched book on Confederacy's last effort to do something meaningful by trying to attacked Washington DC. Led by General Jubal Early, the Confederate forces came pretty close to success and the authors were correct in saying that even if the occupation of Union capitol would only be momentary, the political and morale cost would be devastating for the north. While hindsight make this campaign almost a sideshow, the book revealed how close it really was to being a main event.

Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washington

This book is must reading for anyone interested in Civil War history or who lives in the areas between Monocacy Junction and Washington, D. C. where this action occurred. The book provides a detailed synopsis of the action and is loaded with details of the local history, much of which remains intact for anyone interested in retracing the course of Early's raid.

A very good synopsis of the 1964 valley campaign.

Mr. Judge does history a great justice by writing the history of the Invasion of Washington from its inception. He covers the early phase from a confederate defeat at Cloyds Mountain in Pulaski County just south of Blacksburg (VA. Tech), takes you to Lynchburg and Early's arrival and the subsequent journey to Washington D.C. Gives the reader the complete field of study of the campaign. Wonderful description of future Baltimore Police Chief Harry Gilmore who was a colorful confederate calavary leader as well as a vivid description of the hidden valley of the Shennodoah, Fort Valley.

extremely interesting

good chronological account of Early's 1864 campaign many interesting side notes to a little studied Confederate actio