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Jonathan Noyalas Publishes New Book About General Philip H. Sheridan

Biography explores the life, death and legacy of a famed Civil War general

By Natalie Gales ’25 Jonathan Noyalas ’01, M.A., the Hugh and Virginia McCormick Chair in Civil War History and director of the university’s McCormick Civil…

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Shenandoah’s McCormick Civil War Institute Receives Grant From CFNSV’s Boxley-Fox Endowment Fund

Grant will support walking tour that will share stories of enslaved people at Cool Spring Battlefield

Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute was recently awarded a $1,400 grant from the Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley’s Boxley-Fox Endowment Fund to…

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Noyalas Publishes First Civil War Book For Young Readers

Shenandoah University professor co-authors ‘A Civil War Journey at Cool Spring’ with wife Brandy Noyalas

By Jace Gibson ’26 Jonathan Noyalas ’01, M.A., director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute, and his wife Brandy Noyalas ’02 recently published a…

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Artifact of the Quarter | March 2025

Bayonet Entrenching Tool

Several years ago, MCWI established a relationship with the Fort Collier Civil War Center to support educational and interpretive efforts at Fort Collier, among the…

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Publication Of Note | March 2025

James E. Taylor. “The James E. Taylor Sketchbook: With Sheridan Up the Shenandoah Valley in 1864.” Morningside House, 1989.

*Throughout 2025, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite books related to Civil War art. Visual representations…

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Publication Of Note | December 2024

Emma Cassandra Riely Macon and Reuben Conway Macon. “Reminiscences of the Civil War.” Privately Printed, 1911.

Years after the Civil War’s end, Kate Conway Macon Paulson asked her mother, Emma Cassandra Riely Macon, to record her experiences during the Civil War…

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Publication Of Note | September 2024

Francis Buffum. “Sheridan’s Veterans.” Boston, MA: W.F. Brown & Company, 1886.

*Throughout 2024, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite primary sources relevant to the Civil War in…

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Noyalas Sheds Light On Often Overlooked Civil War Battle In Newest Book

‘The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah’ explores the Battle of Cool Spring’s significance during the 1864 Valley Campaign

Jonathan Noyalas ’01, M.A., director of the McCormick Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University, has released a new book that takes an in-depth look at…

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Publication Of Note | June 2024

George T. Stevens. “Three Years in the Sixth Corps.” Albany, NY: S.R. Gray Publisher, 1866.

*Throughout 2024 the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite primary sources relevant to the Civil War in…

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Publication of Note | March 2024

William S. Tyler, ed. “Recollections of the Civil War: With Many Original Diary Entries and Letters Written from the Seat of War, and with Annotated References by Mason Whiting Tyler” New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912.

*Throughout 2024, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite primary sources relevant to the Civil War in…

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