Category Archives: Battles: Cedar Creek

The 13th resumes command of the brigade

Among the Confederates who were seriously wounded in the Cedar Creek battle was Major George Bruce Gerald, the brigade’s commander. Gerald, former commander of the brigade’s 18th Mississippi Regiment had replaced the wounded Gen. Humphreys as brigade commander after the … Continue reading

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Billed for a lost weapon

Further evidence of the 13th’s participation in the rout of General Early’s demoralized troops after the Battle of Cedar Creek was uncovered by independent historian Jess McLean. He found a notation on the records of Private Henry Francis Carr of … Continue reading

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Battles: Cedar Creek

Gen. Jubal Early saw his chance for a surprise attack on Sheridan and took it. He had moved his army north again to the vicinity of their late September defeat at Fisher’s Hill, where the terrain nevertheless gave them some … Continue reading

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