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3rd Winchester • Tour the Battlefield • Battle Maps • Battle Facts • The Armies
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Red Bud Run • Star Fort • Fort Collier • Rutherford’s Farm
Stephenson Depot • National Cemetery • Confederate Cemetery

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The largest part of the Third Winchester battlefield that is preserved today is along Red Bud Run on the northeast side of Winchester, where the Civil War Trust has preserved 442 acres. (39.210252° N, 78.12724° W; map)

Third Winchester Battlefield

September 19, 1864

Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign
August 1864 – March 1865

This land has been preserved by the Civil War Preservation Trust in partnership with the Virginia Outdoors Foundaiton and the Commonwealth of Virginia with assistance from a Fedral grant from the Land and Water Consrvation Fund (administered by the American Battlefield Protection Program of the National Park Service.)

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Five miles of trails run through the battlefield area. Interpretive markers tell the story of the battle:

at the parking area
Orientation Markers
Touring the Battlefield
A Gathering of Future Leaders

on the Confederate Flank trail
Confederate Horse Artillery
Attack of the 8th Corps
Fording Red Bud Run

on the Battle trail
Hackwood House
Confederate Defense
The Second Woods
Confederates Reform
West Woods
Union Victories in the Valley
The Middle Field
Thoburn’s Attack
The First Woods

on the Union trail
Camp Averell
The Union Rear