Third Battle of Winchester
Confederate Commander
Forces Engaged: 15,514
Killed: 199
Wounded: 1,508
Total Casualties: 1,707
September 19, 1864
Frederick County, near Winchester, Virignia
Also Called Battle of Opequon
Union Victory
Part of Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign
Union Commander
Forces Engaged: 40,000
Killed: 697
Wounded: 3,983
Captured or Missing: 338
Total Casualties: 5,018
Confederate Officers
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Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge
Maj. Gen. Lunsford L. Lomax
Brig. Gen. William R. Terry
Brig. Gen. Zebulon York
Brig. Gen. Cullen A. Battle
Brig. Gen. Bryan Grimes
Brig. Gen. Philip Cook
Brig. Gen. John Pegram
Brig. Gen. Archibald C. Godwin
Brig. Gen. Robert D. Johnson
Brig. Gen. Williams Wickham
Brig. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson
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National Park Service
Third Winchester: Restoring Order in the Landscape of Memory
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Battlefields Trust
The Battle of Third Winchester
3:00-4:00 pm
Third Winchester - September 19, 1864 - 5pm to Dark
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Shenandoah Valley Battlefields
The Third Battle of Winchester
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HistoryNet
The War's Largest Cavalry Charge Sealed a Union Victory and Inspired Postwar Artists
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Harper's Weekly
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Union Officers
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Brig. Gen. David Allen
Brig. Gen. Emory Upton
Brig. Gen. George W. Getty
Brig. Gen. Frank Wheaton
Brig. Gen. Daniel D. Bidwell
Brig. Gen. James Ricketts
Brig. Gen. George Crook
Brig. Gen. William H. Emory
Brig. Gen. William Dwight
Brig. Gen. James W. McMillan
Brig. Gen. Cuvier Grover
Brig. Gen. Henry W. Birge
Brig. Gen. Alfred T. A. Torbert
Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt
Brig. Gen. George A. Custer
Brig. Gen. Thomas C. Devin
Brig. Gen. William Averell
Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson
Brig. Gen. John B. McIntosh
Brig. Gen. George H. Chapman
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Union Official Records
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Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967. p 937-940
Davis, George B., Leslie J. Perry and Joseph W. Kirkley, Eds. The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War. "Battle-Field of
Winchester, VA September, 19, 1864. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891-1895. rpt. New York: Barnes &
Noble, 2003. Plate 99-1
Early, Jubal Anderson. Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott,
1912. Digitized. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1999. p 420-428
Early, Jubal A. "Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek." Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, eds.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition. Vol IV Part II. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National
Historical Society, 2012. p 522-530
Gillespie, G. L. Battle field of Winchester, Va. Opequon. [S.l, 1873] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
Lewis, Thomas A., ed. "The Shenandoah in Flames The Valley Campaigns of 1864." The Civil War Vol. 1 of 28. Alexandria,
VA: Time-Life Books, 1987. p 112-121
Kurz & Allison. Battle of Opequan or Winchester, Va.--Sept. 19' --Union: Gen. Sheridan ... Conf. Gen. Early. Photograph.
Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/91481549/>.
Merritt, Wesley. "Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley." Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, eds.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition. Vol IV Part II. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National
Historical Society, 2012. p 500-521
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964.
------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992.
Wheelan, Joseph. Terrible Swift Sword The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2012.
p 112-115
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