THE GUNS OF CEDAR CREEK Author:Thomas A. Lewis THE ACCLAIMED ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE THAT ALMOST TURNED THE TIDE OF THE CIVIL WAR - This magnificently research account tells how, in a single afternoon, the South won-and lost- the little-known battle that might have changed the course of the Civil War and saved the Confederacy. It portrays in vivd prose the man who rode his famous horse in a 1... more »4-mile race with time to save the Union: short, scrappy, fearless "Little Phil" Sheridan. Sheridan and the other soldiers of Cedar Creek-George Armstrong Custer, John Gordon, George Crook, Tom Rosser, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, Dodson Ramseur and Charles Russell Lowell-the country's best and brightest-clash on these pages in blood and glory...and teach us a lesson in war and courage that will be forgotten no more.« less