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Phillip Sheridan Room
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Phillip Sheridan room is located on the second floor
and on the north, or front, side of the
Stonewall Jackson Inn with a beautiful view of the Magnolia tree
in the front yard. Sheridan is set with a Queen bed, in-room private
bath with a shower, cable TV, phone for local calls and a small
refrigerator.
This room would be a lovely and romantic place to call home
while visiting Harrisonburg, VA.
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Throughout the war, the Confederacy sent armies out of Virginia
through the Shenandoah Valley to invade Maryland and Pennsylvania and
threaten Washington, D.C. General Jubal A. Early, following the same
pattern in the Valley Campaigns of 1864, attacked Union forces near
Washington and raided several towns in Pennsylvania. In August, 1864,
General Grant organized the Army of the Shenandoah. He put Sheridan in
charge to drive Early out of the Valley and close it as a route to
Washington.
Sheridan went at it with vigor. He beat Early at Third Winchester
and Fisher's Hill. At the Battle of Cedar Creek, Early launched a
surprise attack while Sheridan was away from his army, at Winchester,
Virginia. Hearing the distant sounds of artillery, he rode
aggressively to his command. (A famous poem, Sheridan's Ride,
was written by Thomas Buchanan Read to commemorate this event.) He
reached the battlefield about 10:30 a.m. and began to rally his men.
Fortunately for Sheridan, Early's men were too occupied to take
notice; they were hungry and exhausted and fell out of their ranks to
pillage the Union camps. Sheridan's actions saved the day and dealt
Early his most significant defeat, rendering his army incapable of
future offensive action.
Sheridan ordered total destruction in the Valley to deny the
Confederacy its use as an agricultural resource. His troops destroyed
crops and livestock, seized stores and equipment, and burned what they
could not remove. Referring to the possibility of another Confederate
army using the Valley to threaten the North, he said "If a crow wants
to fly down the Shenandoah, he must carry his provisions with him."
The destruction presaged the scorched earth tactics of Sherman's March
to the Sea through Georgia—deny an army a base from which to operate
and bring the effects of war home to the population supporting it.
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