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Charles Sidney Winder

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It is difficult within the proper reserve of an official report to do justice to the merits of this accomplished officer. Urged by the medical director to take no part in the movements of the day because of the then enfeebled state of his health, his ardent patriotism and military pride could bear no
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On August 9, 1862, Winder led his men into battle at Cedar Mountain, on the left flank of the Confederate line. He did so despite having been ill for several days, and in defiance of a surgeon's order to rest. He was personally directing the fire of a battery when a
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Winder ‘s men acknowledged he was personally a brave man. But his disciplinary tactics were considered severe enough that he was called “tyrannical” by his men. Winder was told by commanding General, Stonewall Jackson, to end his disciplinary practice of “bucking”.
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such restraint. Richly endowed with those qualities of mind and person which fit an officer for command and which attract the admiration and excite the enthusiasm of troops, he was rapidly rising to the front rank of his profession. His loss has been severely felt.
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Approximate location at Cedar Mountain battlefield where Gen. Winder was standing when mortally wounded by a Union shell. Facing south.
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shell struck him in his left side, horribly mangling him. Borne to the rear on a stretcher, Winder died later that evening.
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In his official report of the battle, Stonewall Jackson lamented General Winder's loss, writing,
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Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862
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Winder resigned his U.S. Army commission on April 1, 1861, and was appointed a captain of
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in the Confederate Army on May 16, and then quickly promoted to
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Casler, John O. Four years in the Stonewall Brigade pgs 101-10
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on July 8, leading it to prominence in the Confederate army.
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on March 3, 1855, at the relatively young age of twenty-six.
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from April 4, 1854 to March 3, 1855, with a promotion to
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Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders.
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959.
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coming on April 5, 1854. In 1854, while en route to
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Easton, Maryland
Cedar Mountain, Virginia
Wye House
United States
United States of America
Confederate States of America
United States Army
Confederate States Army

Captain (USA)

Brigadier General (CSA)
Stonewall Brigade
American Civil War
Battle of Cedar Mountain

United States Army
Confederate
general officer
American Civil War
Battle of Cedar Mountain
Winder
Easton
Talbot County, Maryland
U.S. naval officer
Franklin Buchanan
John H. Winder
St. John's College
United States Military Academy

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