Bateman's article conflates and confuses William T. Sherman with Phil Sheridan, who were two different guys. Sherman was at First Manassas but after that he was in Kentucky, and later in Georgia, South and North Carolina on the "March to the Sea." Sheridan commanded the Union Valley Campaign in 1864, Sherman was hundreds of miles away.
I live in the area where Sheridan fought against Jubal Early in 1864, and where Mosby's command raided Sheridan's supply convoys on the Valley Pike, now U.S. Route 11. My bank has an office on the road, where formations under Jackson, Lee, Early, and Sheridan had marched. A guy with my mother's maiden name joined Mosby's command in 1865 right before the war ended.
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