Warfare raged up and down the Shenandoah Valley during the bloody fourth summer of the war

摘要

There was no shortage of drama and heroics during the summer 1864 fighting in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. At the Battle of New Market, Virginia, Military Institute cadets launched a desperate chargernthat broke the lines of Fed-eral forces ineptly led by Major General Franz Sigel. Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early's Confederate Second Corps rescued Lynchburg from forces led by Major General David Hunter. Early s subsequent raid with his Army of the Valley threw a scare into Washington, D.C.'s defenders. Union Major General Philip Sheridan's promotion to command the Army of the Shenandoah led to his victories at Third Winchester and Fisher's Hill. At the Battle of Cedar Creek,rnEarly's successful dawn surprise attack was met with a devastating counterattack launched that afternoon by Sheridan's rallied force.