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Third Battle of Winchester

Confederate Commander

Lieut. Gen. Jubal A. Early

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

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. John B. Gordon

Maj. Gen. Robert E. Rodes

Maj. Gen. Stephen D. Ramseur

Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee

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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Confederate Order of Battle

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Confederate Official Records

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National Park Service

Third Battle of Winchester

Third Winchester: Restoring Order in the Landscape of Memory

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Battlefields Trust

Closing the Back Door

Third Battle of Winchester

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Third Winchester Article

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Shenandoah Valley Battlefields

The Third Battle of Winchester

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HistoryNet

Sabres, War and Memory:

The War's Largest Cavalry Charge Sealed a Union Victory and Inspired Postwar Artists

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Harper's Weekly

October 8, 1864

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Military Civil Atlas Map

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Library of Congress Maps

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Union Officers

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Maj. Gen. Horatio Wright

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 Order of Battle

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Union Official Records

1 through 70

71 through 171

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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,

          <www.loc.gov/item/99446372/>.

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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