national trauma from beginning to end with tens of thousands of soldiers through fields and towns berndt on the battlefield hundreds of miles away people trying to escape slavery courthouses and town squares with rallies in all of these happened just over the mountain in the valley so here is the thing these changes will profoundly on likely many americans of both sides did not have unconditional surrender without enormous territory fully mobilized with uncompensated destruction of the most powerful system of slavery and accompanied of the colonization of the free people just made possible a few years before the valley embodied all of these changes and helped the changes take place is what the american history. so within this course from the first battles even those victories from robert e. lee with the largest army ever assembled with the valley playing a major role further to elevate and the great invasion of pennsylvania and they still did not destroy that army they watched each other throughout the fall and people in the north and south believed that would be the culmination and fina