BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Fishers Hill Battlefield

VA -- Fishers Hill Battlefield:

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[1] FISHER_050619_001_STITCH.JPG

[2] FISHER_050619_011.JPG	[3] FISHER_050619_020.JPG	[4] FISHER_050619_034.JPG
[5] FISHER_050619_042.JPG	[6] FISHER_050619_056.JPG	[7] FISHER_050619_061.JPG
[8] FISHER_050619_066.JPG	[9] FISHER_050619_084.JPG	[10] FISHER_050619_093.JPG
[11] FISHER_050619_101.JPG

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FISHER_050619_056.JPG: This is the Funkhouser Farm, the only residence visible on this part of the battlefield in 1864. The Funkhouser's worked this farm for eight generations beginning in mid-1700's.
2. FISHER_050619_061.JPG: That's I-81 running through the battlefield
3. FISHER_050619_066.JPG: The view from the top of Fisher's Hill looking in the direction the Union Army was coming.
4. FISHER_050619_093.JPG: Looking up Fisher's Hill from the base
Wikipedia Description: Battle of Fisher's Hill
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Sheridan's Valley Campaign

Guard Hill
Summit Point
Smithfield Crossing
Berryville
3rd Winchester
Fisher's Hill
Tom's Brook
Cedar Creek

The Battle of Fisher's Hill was fought September 21–22, 1864, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War. Fisher's Hill is located near Strasburg, Virginia.

Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan had almost 30,000 men in the Shenandoah Valley opposing Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal Early, with just under 10,000. Early, following the Third Battle of Winchester took a strong position. His right rested on the North Branch of the Shenandoah River. The left flank of his infantry was on Fisher's Hill. Confederate cavalry was expected to hold the ground from there to Little North Mountain. Maj. Gen. George Crook advised Sheridan to flank this position. His command was assigned to move along the wooded slopes of the mountain to attack the cavalry. Crook's attack began about 4 p.m. on September 22, 1864. The infantry attack pushed the Confederate troopers out of their way. Maj. Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur tried refusing the left flank of his division. Crook and Brig. Gen. James B. Ricketts of Horatio G. Wright's division, VI Corps struck Ramseur's line, pushing it in. Wright's remaining divisions and XIX Corps broke the Southern line. The Confederates fell back to Waynesboro, Virginia. Brig. Gen. Alfred Torbert was sent into the Luray Valley with 6,000 cavalrymen to force his way through the 1,200 Confederate cavalrymen under Brigadier General Williams Wickham. Torbert was then supposed to move through the New Market and Luray Gap in Massanutten Mountain and come up behind Early and cut-off his retreat at Fisher's Hill. Torbert fell back after making a token effort against Wickham's force at Milford (present day Overall) and Early escaped.

Four Union Army enlisted men and one officer received the Medal of Honor in the action at Fisher's Hill.

Private James Connors, 43rd New York Infantry
Private John Creed, 23rd Illinois Infantry
Private George G. Moore, 11th West Virginia Infantry
Sergeant Sylvester D. Rhodes, 61st Pennsylvania Infantry
First Lieutenant Edward N. Whittier, 5th Battery Maine Light Artillery
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