Winchester Charge

“Sheridan’s Campaign. Battle of Winchester- charge of Crook’s Eighth Corps, September 19th, 1864- the right. Our sketches of this signal victory show the operations of the Eighth Corps on the right. In the foreground are Crook’s veterans advancing to attack the forts on the right, which command Winchester, and which they took so gallantly by the aid of Averill’s cavalry. The Federals, it will be perceived, charged under the fire of these forts as well as of the fire of the Confederates posted behind the broken stone wall and rail fence on the left, behind which may be seen the distant summit of Strasburg Mountain. Nor was this the only fighting. The centre nobly did its share, driving the Confederates from the woods to the right of our second sketch, and when they regained it forcing them again into the deadly grasp of Crook, literally filling the woods with dead."— Frank Leslie, 1896

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