Decision at Tom's Brook

The Battle of Tom's Brook, recalled one Confederate soldier, was "e;the greatest disaster that ever befell our cavalry during the whole war."e; The fight took place during the last autumn of the Civil War, when the Union General Phil Sheridan vowed to turn the crop-rich Shenandoah Valley into "e;a desert."e; Farms and homes were burned, livestock slaughtered, and Southern families ...