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Definition of Shenandoah valley
1. Noun. A large valley between the Allegheny Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains in northern Virginia; site of numerous battles during the American Civil War.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shenandoah Valley
Literary usage of Shenandoah valley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Such, in brief, is the outline, and was the condition of the shenandoah valley
when I entered it August fourth, 1864. The infantry portion of these troops ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"Throughout the whole war, the shenandoah valley, or, as it is also called, the
Valley of Virginia, exercised, from the nature of its topographical situation ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"(5) THE FALL OF RICHMOND Throughout the whole war, the shenandoah valley, or, as
it is also called, the valley of Virginia, exercised, from the nature of ..."
4. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (1998)
"General Hunter had been operating up the shenandoah valley with some success,
having fought a battle near Staun- ton where he captured a great many ..."
5. The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"Kercheval,' the historian of the Valley of Virginia, long ago called attention
to the large Pennsylvania German settlements in the shenandoah valley, ..."
6. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"The shenandoah valley is a ... Such, in brief, is the outline, and was the
condition of the shenandoah valley when I entered it August fourth, ..."
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