"So Badly Routed: The Battle of Fisher’s Hill in Virginia’s" Topic

…Shenandoah Valley, September 22-24, 1864

""I do not think that there was ever an army so badly routed" announced Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan in a message to Lt. Gen. U. S. Grant on the morning after the decisive victory at Fisher's Hill, Virginia, on September 22, 1864. The battlefield triumph was the result of Sheridan's elaborate plan to destroy Lt. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate Valley Army deployed on a supposedly impregnable position along an aptly named stream called Tumbling Run south of Strasburg in Virginia's important Shenandoah Valley. The combat was Early's last chance to prevent the wholesale destruction of the Valley during the autumn of 1864. So Badly Routed: The Battle of Fisher's Hill in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, September 22-24, 1864, is the first book-length treatment of this event.

After several unsuccessful attempts by the Union to take control of the Shenandoah (known as the "Breadbasket of the Confederacy"), Grant directed Sheridan and his Army of the Shenandoah to rid the region of enemy troops and strip it clean. Grant had had enough of Early's persistent threats to the capital at Washington, D.C., whose presence in the Valley also helped feed Robert E. Lee's struggling Army of Northern Virginia…"

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