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Stand in the Cemetery: George Washington Getty and the Battle of Cedar Creek

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Daniel Davis

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 | 4 Comments
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