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W -4:-Elks Club, formerly General Sheridan's Headquarters, Winchester, Va.
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POST CARD For United States
SHERIDAN'S HEADQUARTERS
When Winchester was first captured by the Fed.
erals in March, 1862, Gen. N. P. Banks selected
this building for his headquarters. During the next
year it was likewise used by Gen. R. H. Milroy,
and again in the fall and winter of 1864-65 it was
the headquarters of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. From
it General Sheridan began his ride to the battlefield
of Cedar Creek made famous by the poem of
Thomas Buchanan Read. For many years after the
Civil War the building was known as the Episcopal
Female Institute, and is now the home of the local
lodge, Order of Elks.
and Island Possessions
Cuba, Canada and
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