The Woodstock Races

(Wikipedia) The Battle of Tom's Brook was fought on October 9, 1864, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, during Philip Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign of the American Civil War. It resulted in a significant Union victory, one that was mockingly dubbed The Woodstock Races for the speed of the Confederate withdrawal. Continued

- Harry Gilmor, "Four Years in the Saddle."

Photo: General Custer saluting Confederate General Tom Rosser at the Woodstock races, Oct. 9, 1864 (Alfred Waud/Library of Congress).