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CHICAGO CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE SHENANDOAH VALLEY – 1864 Shenandoah Valley Map 1864 CHICAGO CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE SHENANDOAH VALLEY – 1864 Page 1 of 83 Table of Contents Shenandoah Valley Map 1864 ...................................................................................................................... 0 Shenandoah 1864 by Jonathan Sebastian .................................................................................................... 3 Lower Shenandoah Valley ............................................................................................................................. 9 Army of the Shenandoah ............................................................................................................................ 10 Army of the Valley....................................................................................................................................... 11 Maps ........................................................................................................................................................... 12 Overview Shenandoah Valley Campaigns May-June 1864 ..................................................................... 12 Battle of New Market Map 1 .................................................................................................................. 13 Battle of New Market Map 2 .................................................................................................................. 14 Battle of New Market Map 3 .................................................................................................................. 15 Battle of New Market Map4 ................................................................................................................... 16 Overview Shenandoah Valley Campaigns August-October 1864 ........................................................... 17 Cool Spring Map 1 July 18, 1864 ......................................................................................................... 18 Cool Spring Map 2 July 18, 1864 ........................................................................................................ 19 Cool Spring Map 3 July 18, 1864 ....................................................................................................... 20 Cool Spring Map 4 & 5 July 18, 1864 .................................................................................................. 21 Battle of Rutherford’s Farm Maps 1&2 July 20, 1864 ........................................................................ 22 Approach to Kernstown .......................................................................................................................... 23 2nd Battle of Kernstown, Map 1 July 24, 1864..................................................................................... 24 2nd Battle of Kernstown, Map 2 July 24, 1864..................................................................................... 25 2nd Battle of Kernstown, Map 3 July 24, 1864 .................................................................................... 26 2nd Battle of Kernstown, Map 4 – Close of Battle ................................................................................... 27 Winchester – Map 1 - Union Advance on Berryville Pike Sept 19, 1864 ............................................. 28 Winchester – Map 2 - Union Cavalry Creek Crossings Sept 19, 1864 ................................................ 29 Winchester – Map 3 – Opening Attacks Sept 19, 1864 ..................................................................... 30 Winchester – Map 4 – Confederates Counterattack Sept 19, 1864 ................................................... 31 Winchester – Map 5 – The Union Line Holds Sept 19, 1864 ............................................................... 32 Winchester – Map 6a – The Railroad Fight Sept 19, 1864 ................................................................. 33 Winchester – Map 6b – Crook’s and Tobert’s Attack Sewpt 19, 1864 .............................................. 34 Winchester – Map 7 - Retreat to Smithfield Redoubt Sept 19, 1864 ................................................ 35 Winchester – Map 8 – Early’s Army is Routed Sept 19, 1864 ............................................................. 36 CHICAGO CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE SHENANDOAH VALLEY – 1864 Page 2 of 83 Battle of Fisher’s Hill - Earthworks September 20, 1864 .................................................................... 37 Battle of Fisher’s Hill - Situation before battle, night of September 20-21, 1864 .............................. 38 Battle of Fisher’s Hill - Situation before Fisher’s Hill September 21, 1864 ......................................... 39 Battle of Fisher’s Hill - Situation before Fisher’s Hill September 22, 1864 Pre Battle ........................ 40 Battle of Fisher’s Hill, September 22, 1864 ......................................................................................... 41 Battle of Fisher’s Hill – Crook’s Opening Attack, September 22, 1864 ............................................... 42 Battle of Fisher’s Hill – Attack on Ramseur’s Hill, September 22, 1864 ............................................. 43 Battle of Fisher’s Hill – Attacks East of the Railroad, September 22, 1864 ........................................ 44 Battle of Fisher’s Hill – Pegram’s Line Disintegrates September 21, 1864 ......................................... 45 Battle of Fisher’s Hill – Crook Reaches the Pike September. 21, 1864 ............................................... 46 Cedar Creek – Situation before battle, night of October 18-19, 1864 ................................................ 47 Cedar Creek – Early Morning October 19, 1864 ................................................................................. 48 Cedar Creek – October 19, 1864, 5:30am .......................................................................................... 49 Cedar Creek – October 19, 1864, -6:00am & 6:30am ........................................................................ 50 Cedar Creek – October 19, 1864, 7:00am .......................................................................................... 51 Cedar Creek – October 19, 1864, 7:30am .......................................................................................... 52 Cedar Creek – October 19, 1864, 8:00 -9:00am ................................................................................. 53 Cedar Creek – October 19, 1864, 10:30am ....................................................................................... 54 Cedar Creek – October 19, 1864, 11:30am & 1:00pm ....................................................................... 55 Cedar Creek – October 19, 1864, 4:00pm & 4:15pm ......................................................................... 56 Sheridan's Ride ............................................................................................................................................ 58 Order of Battle ............................................................................................................................................ 60 New Market, Virginia .............................................................................................................................. 60 Shenandoah Valley Campaign ................................................................................................................. 62 Second Battle of Kernstown.................................................................................................................... 68 Third Battle of Winchester ...................................................................................................................... 70 Battle of Cedar Creek .............................................................................................................................. 75 Orders and Ammunition ............................................................................................................................. 76 CHICAGO CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE SHENANDOAH VALLEY – 1864 Page 3 of 83 Shenandoah 1864 by Jonathan Sebastian Three full years had passed since delegates from the seceded states gathered in Montgomery, Alabama and selected Jefferson Davis as provisional president of the Confederacy. Three years had passed since Abraham Lincoln had been inaugurated to the presidency of the United States. It appeared the tide of the war was shifting – but only beginning to shift. Many in the Confederacy were not at a point of giving up in early 1864. It would take additional Union military victories to bring an end to the conflict. Lincoln called upon Ulysses Simpson Grant, making him General-in-chief of all Union armies on March 9, 1864, to help bring about that final victory. Grant settled on a plan of “coordination”, that is, moving all Union armies against Confederate forces at the same time. The campaign was to begin as near the beginning of May as conditions allowed. The Army of the James was to advance up the Virginia peninsula between the York and James Rivers. The Army of the Potomac was to advance overland, pushing the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia toward Richmond. The army group assembled around Chattanooga was to have the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the city of Atlanta as its objectives. The Army of the Gulf was to capture Mobile, Alabama though part of this force was engaged in the Red River Campaign, and the campaign for that city would be delayed.