Topic summary
Valley campaigns of 1864
United States of America
Confederate States of America- Department of West Virginia (June 1864)
- VIII Corps (detachment) & VI Corps (detachment; June–July 1864)
- Defenses of the Potomac River & Washington (Mid July – August 1, 1864)
- Army of West Virginia
- Army of the Shenandoah (August 1, 1864 – June 27, 1865)
- Department of Western Virginia
- Army of the Valley
- 8,500 (June 1864)
- 5,800 (early July 1864)
- 9,600 (mid-July 1864)
- 40,000 (August–October 1864)
- 5,000 (June 1864)
- 14,000 (June–July)
- 21,100 (October 1864)
The Valley campaigns of 1864 began as operations initiated by Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and resulting battles that took place in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia during the American Civil War from May to October 1864. Some military historians divide this period into three separate campaigns. This article considers them together, as the campaigns interacted and built upon one another.