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- catalog abstract "On the morning of June 8, 1862, two armies met on a rain-wet field in Cross Keys, Virginia. When the Battle of Cross Keys was over, the Confederate army had halted the Union advance, an important victory in Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign. The armies moved on, leaving behind their dead and wounded, and a field strewn with the detritus of war. One hundred twenty-five years later, artist Peter Svenson purchased forty acres of farmland encompassing the. Battlefield with the intention of starting over in rural privacy. He built a house, refurbished the old barn on the property, and taught himself to farm hay. At the same time, he immersed himself in the history of the land and the Battle of Cross Keys. In Battlefield Svenson intertwines a detailed description of the battle based on field reports, letters, and other firsthand accounts with a lively recounting of his own present day war against progress in the form of. Pesticides and mini-malls. We watch as Svenson harvests his first crop of hay the old-fashioned way, and tries to live with respect for and responsibility to the area's past. At the same time, we see the battle unfold as if superimposed on the landscape. The Union army confronts the Confederate army. Both commanders are ill-informed and indecisive. A hero emerges in the unlikely form of a sixty-eight-year-old Confederate general whose confidence contributes significantly. To the stunning defeat of the much larger Union force. Here Svenson combines history with a personal and passionate reminder of how intimately connected we are to the land we occupy and to its history.".
- catalog contributor b3867612.
- catalog coverage "Cross Keys (Rockingham County, Va.) History.".
- catalog coverage "Cross Keys (Va.) History.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Battlefield with the intention of starting over in rural privacy. He built a house, refurbished the old barn on the property, and taught himself to farm hay. At the same time, he immersed himself in the history of the land and the Battle of Cross Keys. In Battlefield Svenson intertwines a detailed description of the battle based on field reports, letters, and other firsthand accounts with a lively recounting of his own present day war against progress in the form of.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "On the morning of June 8, 1862, two armies met on a rain-wet field in Cross Keys, Virginia. When the Battle of Cross Keys was over, the Confederate army had halted the Union advance, an important victory in Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign. The armies moved on, leaving behind their dead and wounded, and a field strewn with the detritus of war. One hundred twenty-five years later, artist Peter Svenson purchased forty acres of farmland encompassing the.".
- catalog description "Pesticides and mini-malls. We watch as Svenson harvests his first crop of hay the old-fashioned way, and tries to live with respect for and responsibility to the area's past. At the same time, we see the battle unfold as if superimposed on the landscape. The Union army confronts the Confederate army. Both commanders are ill-informed and indecisive. A hero emerges in the unlikely form of a sixty-eight-year-old Confederate general whose confidence contributes significantly.".
- catalog description "To the stunning defeat of the much larger Union force. Here Svenson combines history with a personal and passionate reminder of how intimately connected we are to the land we occupy and to its history.".
- catalog extent "ix, 246 pl. :".
- catalog identifier "0571197981 :".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Faber and Faber,".
- catalog spatial "Cross Keys (Rockingham County, Va.) History.".
- catalog spatial "Cross Keys (Va.) History.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Cross Keys (Rockingham County)".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Cross Keys.".
- catalog subject "973.7/32 20".
- catalog subject "Cross Keys, Battle of, Cross Keys, Rockingham County, Va., 1862.".
- catalog subject "Cross Keys, Battle of, Cross Keys, Va., 1862.".
- catalog subject "E473.74 .S94 1992".
- catalog subject "Farm life Virginia Cross Keys (Rockingham County)".
- catalog subject "Farm life Virginia Cross Keys.".
- catalog subject "Svenson, Peter Homes and haunts Virginia Cross Keys (Rockingham County)".
- catalog subject "Svenson, Peter Homes and haunts Virginia Cross Keys.".
- catalog title "Battlefield : farming a Civil War battleground / Peter Svenson.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".