The Battle of Waynesboro (Virginia): brevet Colonel George A. Custer, commanding the Seventh Cavalry Regiment of the compulsory Union Army of the Potomac, destroys the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of the Valley, commanded by Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 303.
Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia – Wikipedia
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