Cedar Creek, October 21-22, 2000
Your webmaster couldn't attend this event due to a meeting of the Clan Cameron in PA on the 21st, so some of these pictures aren't very well identified and he can't write a riveting exposition on the event. In place of that, he offers the following brief history of the original Battle of Cedar Creek:
At dawn, October 19, 1864, the Confederate Army of the Valley under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early surprised the Federal army at Cedar Creek and routed the VIII and XIX Army Corps. Commander Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan arrived from Winchester to rally his troops, and, in the afternoon, launched a crushing counterattack, which recovered the battlefield. Sheridan’s victory at Cedar Creek broke the back of the Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley. Lincoln rode the momentum of Sheridan’s victories in the Valley and Sherman’s successes in Georgia to re-election.
Scene of the Confederate Camp.
Scene of the Confederate Camp.
Picture of Captain Stecker's tent from the inside of Private Wills' tent.
Another picture of Captain Stecker's tent, this time with Private Wills' thumb also in the picture.
Scene of the Confederate Camp.
Captain Stecker hard at work.
Scene of the Confederate Camp.
Scene of the Confederate Camp.
Scene of the Confederate Camp.
Scene of the Confederate Camp.
Friendly artillery.
Scene of the Confederate Camp.
Scene of the Confederate Camp.
I HOPE that's friendly artillery.
Captain Stecker hard at work.
Corporal Stuart REALLY hard at work.
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