Geography and Identity

Portrait of General “Stonewall” Jackson

Technically speaking, the Shenandoah Valley is the northern part of the Great Valley of Virginia, approximately a 140-mile corridor extending north from to the Potomac River. The valley lies between the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east and the Alleghenies on the west, its breadth never wider than twenty-five miles. Read more about: Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War