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The Third Battle of Winchester was the largest and costliest battle fought in the Valley, and one of the pivotal battles of the Civil War, a ferocious back-and-forth struggle in which the Confederates were gradually forced into an L-shaped line north and east of Winchester until a final decisive attack by Federal infantry and cavalry struck the Confederate left flank, breached the defenders' lines, and sent the Confederates whirling through Winchester. During the fighting, Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan declared that he had Gen. George Crook there with 10,000 men and would throw them in and whip the Confederates, after Union Gen. William Emory exclaimed, "My dead are everywhere!"
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