Cedar Mountain, Va. Family group before the house in which Gen. Charles S. Winder (C.S.A.) died.
Cedar Mountain, Virginia. Photo taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan.
Library of Congress image.
Charles Sidney Winder (October 18, 1829 – August 9, 1862), was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate general officer in the American Civil War. On August 9, 1862, Winder led his men into battle at Cedar Mountain, on the left flank of the Confederate line. He did so despite having been ill for several days, and in defiance of a surgeon’s order to rest. He was personally directing the fire of a battery when a Union shell struck him in his left side, horribly mangling him. Borne to the rear on a stretcher, Winder died later that evening. (Wikipedia)
