The Third Battle of Winchester

At Red Bud Run during the Third Battle of Winchester, men of the Eighth Corps attacked across the wide, boggy, marshy flood plain on the north bank in 1864 and trudged through waist-deep water under enemy fire. Some reportedly fell wounded and drowned in the crossing. Col. Rutherford B. Hayes reported that rear and front lines and different regiments of the same line became mingled and reached the far side with lines and organizations broken, but charged the opposing works pell-mell in a determined assault. They joined Union Col. Thoburn's troops and later the Sixth and Nineteenth Corps in pushing Gordon's forces out of their hard-won position in the Second Woods near the Hackwood House.

Virginia · United States