✦ History

Part of American Civil War

Third Battle of Winchester

September 19, 1864 · Third Battle of Winchester

Result Union victory

Sheridan's Army of the Shenandoah defeated Early at Opequon Creek.

On the map Contemporaries

Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
Philip Henry Sheridan military commander Horatio Gouverneur Wright military commander George Crook military commander William H. Emory military commander
John C. Breckinridge military commander Fitzhugh Lee military commander Jubal Early military commander John B. Gordon military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
40,00043,000
Casualties
5,0185,000
Missing
600
Strength
15,51413,000
Casualties
4,0154,000
Missing
2,000
Guns lost
5

Units

Army of West Virginia Army of the Potomac XIX Corps (Union army) Army of the Shenandoah (Union) VI Corps (Union Army) 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment 1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment 23rd Illinois Infantry Regiment 2nd West Virginia Cavalry Regiment 3rd West Virginia Cavalry Regiment 87th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment 8th Ohio Cavalry Regiment
Army of the Valley