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Tag Archives: Army of West Virginia
Stand in the Cemetery: George Washington Getty and the Battle of Cedar Creek
Following the engagement at Tom’s Brook on Oct. 9, 1864, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan’s Union Army of the Shenandoah continued north toward Winchester. Sheridan eventually put his men into camp along a stream known as Cedar Creek south of the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Army of West Virginia, Battle of Cedar Creek, Battle of the Wilderness, Brock Road-Orange Plank Road Intersection, Clement Evans, Daniel Bidwell, Frank Wheaton, George Washington Getty, Horatio Wright, J. Warren Keifer, James Warner, Jedediah Hotchkiss, John Gordon, Jubal Early, Lewis Grant, Maj. Gen. William Emory, Philip Sheridan, VI Corps, XIX Corps
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McKinley’s Ride
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Eric Sterner Quartermasters don’t usually have their stories spread nationally or warrant monuments, but William McKinley, 25th President of the Unites States, has one at Antietam. There, as a young sergeant, … Continue reading
Sketches from the Shenandoah: George Crook Marching through Harrisonburg
Following the Battle of Fisher’s Hill, the Federals pursued Jubal Early’s retreating Confederates up the Shenandoah Valley. Here, artist James Taylor captures George Crook’s Army of West Virginia entering the town of Harrisonburg.
