The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah: The 1864 Valley Campaign’s Battle of Cool Spring, July 17-18, 1864 ( Jonathan A. Noyalas-CWC) Section- U.S. History General Irresistibly fun

Irresistibly fun

and impossible to forget

blockaders in blue floated within earshot of gray garrisons that guarded vital ports

there’s nothing at all to read

the Civil War itself

The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah: The 1864 Valley Campaign’s Battle of Cool Spring, July 17-18, 1864 ( Jonathan A. Noyalas-CWC) Section- U.S. History General Irresistibly funby Jonathan A. Noyalas Decades after the Civil Wars end, Confederate veteran John Alexander Stikeleather reflected on his experiences as a soldier in the 4th North Carolina Infantry. Among all of the engagements in which Stikeleather had been involved during his four years of service, there was one he believed should never be forgotten: Cool Spring. While largely overlooked or treated as a footnote to Gen. Jubal A. Earlys raid on Washington in the