Raynors HCA 2015-02
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War-date Union Broadside BRILLIANT VICTORY of Gen. Sheridan! Over Breckinridge and Early. Two Rebel Generals Killed, and Four Wounded. 2500 Prisoners and 5 Pieces of Artillery Taken. This tall format printing is 1 page, 4" x 11.75" irregular left margin, September 1864, with dispatch by Secretary of War Stanton to Governor Andrew Johnson, and reads: "Yesterday, Monday the 19th, Maj. General Sheridan attacked the Rebel forces under Generals Breckenridge and Early, near Bunker Hill, in the Shenandoah Valley, fought a hard battle all day, and a brilliant victory was won by our forces. The enemy were driven off twelve miles, twenty-five hundred prisoners were captured, nine stand of colors and five pieces of artillery were taken, and the rebel killed and wounded left in our hands. The rebel Generals Rhodes and Yeador were killed, and four other Rebel Generals wounded... " Very good condition. At the battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864, just after inflicting a severe repulse upon the foe, "in the very moment of triumph and while conducting the attack with great gallantry and skill," as General Early says, General Rodes was struck behind the ear by a fragment of shell and died within a few hours.
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