Peter Cozzens is careful to advise the reader in the introduction to his voluminous work that he will depart from previous works that depended on Confederate source material. Because of this dependence, those prior works have tended to elevate the reputation of Thomas J. Whatever the reason, it is probably more proper to name the military events that transpired there in the spring of 1862 simply as the "Shenandoah Campaign of 1862," because we now have material readily available to suggest that this campaign was not as one-sided as we have previously been led to believe.
The operations that took place in Virginia's great Shenandoah Valley in 1862 have always been called "Stonewall" Jackson's Valley Campaign." Perhaps they have been referred to in this fashion because Jackson was the most famous of its participants or because the people living in the area have been immersed in the Southern side of the story.
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