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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
house was also the Headquarters of General Shields, and to it he was taken when he was wounded on the 22d of March, 1862. see page 369, volume II. Shields was wounded on a ridge a little to the northwest of the house. in the Shenandoah Valley. That night the National troops occupied their old position at Cedar Creek. Sheridan's promise, We will have all the camps and cannon back again, had been kept. The conqueror returned to Kernstown, near Winchester, and there, in the house of Mrs. Francis Mahaney, he established his Headquarters for awhile. Government and people united in praise of the young leader, and there was joy in every loyal heart because of his achievements. Art and song celebrated Sheridan's ride from Winchester to the front; and when, less than three weeks afterward, General McClellan resigned, Nov. 4, 1864. and thereby created a vacant major-generalship in the regular army, the victor in the Shenandoah Valley was substantially rewarded by a commission to fill his