Existing comment:
Sheridan rode along his lines after the Union victory at Fisher's Hill on September 22, 1864.
Sheridan's army smashed the Confederates at the battles of Winchester (Opequon Creek), Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek.
Report of Sheridan to Grant, October 7, 1864:
" ... the whole country from the Blue Ridge to the North Mountain has been made untenable for a rebel army. I have destroyed over 2,000 barns, filled with wheat, hay, and farming implements; over seventy mills filled with flour and wheat; have driven in front of the army over 4,000 head of stock; and have killed and issued to the troops not less than 3,000 sheep." |