breckenridge is making his way up trying to defend stanton. they do at piedmont. it is a union victory. one of my characters down there where i'm from, grumble jones, as he is an affectionately known lead forn, gets to maybe an hour before he is killed, and then taken back down to southwest virginia down near valleyut after this, the is a whole different situation. what you see in all this is that it civil war as we imagine not as a series of disconnected battles, but if we pull the it is all about connections. it is about a vast expanse, about railroads, guerrillas, the personalities of people being a failure and hunter being a great risk. not a failure yet, but it's also about luck and vision and longing for vengeance. to understand the civil war, you had to have all of these things happening all the time. we cannot just hold something constant while we deal with this part of it. we have to find ways to weave them together. after hunter marches into stanton, and they say finally, the great stronghold of the valley has fallen. the place that has been a citadel fo

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