oct 19, 1864 - The Battle of Cedar Creek
Description:
The culminating battle of the Valley Campaigns in 1864. Confederates successfully attack and drive troops of the Army of the Shenandoah from their camps on the banks of Cedar Creek south of Middletown, Virginia. Major General Philip Sheridan and the Army of the Shenandoah conducted a systematic destruction of a 75 section of the Shenandoah Valley. This laid waste to the “Breadbasket of the Confederacy”Added to timeline:
Date:
oct 19, 1864
Now
~ 161 years ago