Rafuse's War in Virginia series continues

You might recall that I liked Ethan Rafuse's From the Mountains to the Bay: The War in Virginia, January-May 1862 (Kansas, 2023) quite a bit. I remarked at the time that it had the hallmarks of the beginning of a series (including a cliffhanger ending) but nowhere inside was there even a hint that future volumes were planned. Happily, it turns out to be the case that The War in Virginia is indeed a series-format project, the next volume, From the Valley to the Tidewater: The War in Virginia, May 21–June 12, 1862, scheduled for a November '26 release.

Whereas the first book covered a five-month period that positioned Union forces on the doorstep of Richmond, the second covers three weeks of dramatic Confederate countermoves on both the Shenandoah and capital fronts. It will be interesting to see how far forward Rafuse plans to carry this series. Hopefully, the new book will lay out a roadmap.