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You can find on a CD and there is also a CW Times magazine article by McManus at abebooks.com, see below.

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Article: Cloyd's Mountain (Civil War) Outnumbered the Confederates Made a Valiant Effort to Repulse the Enemy's Advance
McManus, Howard R.
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Book Description: Civil War Times Illustrated, 1980. Unbound pages. Book Condition: Very Good. Photographs and/or Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 11 pp pages; This is an article from a journal, NOT A BOOK. Very good condition, in mylar with a stiff backing. Bookseller Inventory # 86638
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Out-of-print CIVIL WAR BOOK published on CD Rom:

THE BATTLE OF CLOYD'S MOUNTAIN:
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Raid
April 29 - May 19, 1864,
by Howard R. McManus, H. E. Howard Inc., 1989, 107 pages.

"For 125 years, the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain fought between Dublin and Pearisburg, Virginia, has lain shrouded in obscurity. Overshadowed by larger armies and more consequential campaigns, it failed to receive public recognition then, as it fails now. Most knowledge of the battle died with its veterans, who left only rare, scattered memoirs. As local tradition degenerated into error, the very battle site faded from memory.

Now, carefully researched maps and moment by moment description, reclaim from oblivion, the shock and fury that was the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain: A Union raid--unprecedented in daring and execution, Maj. Gen. George C. Crook's brigades, eager for battle, but cut off from all possible retreat by a 200 mile wall of mountains; a Confederate stand--gallant, yet controversial, Brig. Gen. Albert G. Jenkin's hastily assembled army, badly outnumbered, but with infantry and artillery entrenched across formidable terrain.

The frenzy of battle rising to a climactic moment: For the South--initial victory collapsing into bitter chaos with Jenkin's mortal wound, McCausland's panicked orders, and final retreat; for the North--dispirited rout of half their army transformed by one desperate charge into breakthrough and complete victory.

Through these pages, the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Raid vividly emerge from letters, diaries, official reports, and personal reminiscences of common soldiers as they bivouacked in icy rain, slogged doggedly through knee deep mud, and grappled in deadly hand to hand combat with the enemy."

This is a Golden Age "Virtual Book" CD created with special software developed by Golden Age Publishing, LLC. It navigates like a website, but downloads are instantaneous. Pages appear exactly as in the original book, but can also be magnified, or saved and printed.

The CD runs on either a PC or MAC with a standard browser (on or off line) and requires no other special viewing software or plugins--merely insert the CD into the drive and it opens in the browser window (MAC users must start the CD manually by clicking on the "open.htm" file).

Minimum system requirements:
Internet Explorer or Netscape versions 4.0 or greater, 32 meg ram, 133 Pentium processor and 8x CD Rom drive (Javascript enabled).

This CD rom also includes a copy of reports issued about the expedition by Union and Confederate officers involved, as found in the OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, Series I, Volume XXXVII, Part 1.

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