Battle of Cedar Creek – 4 p.m.

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Sheridan’s Attack

Five infantry divisions of the 6th and 19th Corps launched toward the three Confederate divisions of Evans, Kershaw and Ramseur on the west side of the Valley Pike. The fighting was intense and continued for close to an hour.

Situation map for the Battle of Cedar Creek - 4 p.m.

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Grover’s and Wheaton’s attacks stalled and Keifer’s men broke for the rear before being reformed and returning to the firefight. Getty’s left flank brigade under Winsor French was thrown back in its first attack but also reformed and returned to slug it out with Ramseur’s Confederates.

All along the line on the west side of the Valley Pike the Union attack bogged down into a deadly firefight, with the Confederates usually sheltered behind low stone walls that lined the fields.

The first break in Early’s line was on the far western flank, where Dwight’s division of the Union 19th Corps seized the crest of a ridge from John Lowe’s Georgia Brigade of Evans’ Division, which streamed to the rear.