Atop Fisher’s Hill

Shenandoah Valley:
Fisher’s Hill

Atop Fisher’s Hill

On the extreme left of the Confederate line at Fisher’s Hill.  Union artillery and infantry appeared on the hill in the distance early on the afternoon of September 22, 1864, and were fired upon by artillery at this point.  In late afternoon Union troops attacked up the hill from the left.

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Lieutenant Colonel Thomas F. Wildes, commanding the 116th Ohio Infantry: “ About 3 P.M., we got squarely on the enemy’s flank, with our left past his entrenchments. . . . Our movement was a complete surprise to them, and they had now only to get out of our way or surrender.” -- Wildes’ regimental history Record of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Infantry Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, as quoted in Voices of the Civil War: Shenandoah 1864, page 119

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