In the Shenandoah Valley, Union troops under Sheridan turn defeat into crushing victory at the Battle of Cedar Creek

Confederate General Jubal Early made a bold attempt to counter Union General Philip Sheridan's advances in the Shenandoah Valley with a sweeping flanking movement that caught the federal forces by surprise in a dawn attack. Driven back more than four miles is disarray, the Union's Army of the Shenadoah rallied in the afternoon with the arrival of their commander and reinforcements and inflicted a crushing defeat on the Confederates that effectively lost the Shenandoah Valley, permanently, to Sheridan's army. (By John Osborne) 
Source Citation
Chronicles of the Great Rebellion Against the United States of America ... (Philadelphia, A. Winch, 1867), 86.
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