Fridays at the Front - Shenandoah Valley Stories
Wrong Weapons, Wrong Tactics - Fridays at the Front - Season 4, Episode 9
5m 51s
As Union soldiers splashed across the Shenandoah River on July 18, 1864 to establish a beachhead on the Confederate side, one brigade was completely new to the type of fighting they were asked to do. Let’s travel to Thoburn’s right flank and see what happened!
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