" John D. Imboden is an important but often overlooked figure in
Civil War history. With only limited militia training, the Virginia
lawyer and politician rose to the rank of brigadier general in the
Confederate Army and commanded the Shenandoah Valley District,
which had been created for Stonewall Jackson. Imboden organized and
led the Staunton Artillery in the capture of the U.S. arsenal at
Harper's Ferry. He participated in the First Battle of Bull
Run/Manassas and organized a cavalry command that fought alongside
Stonewall Jackson in his Shenandoah Valley Campaign. The
Jones/Imboden Raid into West Virginia cut the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad and ravaged the Kanawha Valley petroleum fields. Imboden
covered the Confederate withdrawal from Gettysburg and later led
cavalry accompanying Jubal Early in his operations against Philip
Sheridan in Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Imboden
completed his war service in command of Confederate prisons in
Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Spencer C. Tucker fully examines
the life of this Confederate cavalry commander, including analysis
of Imboden's own post-war writing, and explores overlooked facets
of his life, such as his involvement in the Confederate prison
system, his later efforts to restore the economic life of his home
state of Virginia by developing its natural resources, and his
founding of the city of Damascus, which he hoped to make into a new
iron and steel center. Spencer C. Tucker, John Biggs Professor of
Military History at the Virginia Military Institute, is the author
of Vietnam and the author or editor of several other books on
military and naval history. He lives in Lexington, Virginia.
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