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Battle of Fisher's Hill

Confederate Commander

Lieut. Gen. Jubal A. Early

Forces Engaged: Approx: 9,500

Total Casualties: 1,234

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

Same as 3rd Battle of Winchester

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Confederate Official Records

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September 21-22, 1864

Near Strasburg, Virginia

Union Victory

Part of Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign

National Park Service

Battle of Fisher's Hill

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Battlefield Trust

The Battle of Fisher's Hill Battle Map

Fisher's Hill Article

Battle of Fisher's Hill Article

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Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Trust

The Battle of Fisher's Hill

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Library of Congress

Plan of the Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia

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Harper's Weekly

October 8, 1864

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Forces Engaged: Approx. 35,000

Killed: 52

Wounded: 457

Captured or Missing: 19

Total Casualties: 528

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

Same as 3rd Battle of Winchester

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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 280-281

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, 1998. p 429-431

Early, Jubal A. "Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek."  Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Vol IV Part

          II. Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, Eds. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National

          Historical Society. p 522-530

Hotchkiss, Jed. "Virginia." Confederate Military History Vol. III, Part I. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing Co. 1899. rpt National

          Historical Society, 2008. p 491-492

Lewis, Thomas A, Ed. The Shenandoah in Flames The Valley Campaign of 1864. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1987. p

          122-125

Merritt, Wesley. "Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley." Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Vol IV Part II.

          Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, Eds. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society. p 500-521

Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Leaders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964.

------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Leaders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992.

Wheelan, Joseph. The Terrible Swift Sword The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan. Cambridge, Ma: Da Capo Press, 2012.

          p 116-117

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