Description: In 1863 Confederate forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet, while scouring Southside Virginia for badly needed supplies, threatened the Union garrison in Suffolk. For the residents of surrounding Nansemond, Isle of Wight, and Southampton Counties, the Suffolk campaign followed an exhausting and deadly pattern.
Review Quotes:
The definitive study of the conflict in southeast Virginia, and one of the finest Confederate regional studies to have reached print.
--Civil War Historians Newsletter