Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Daga baya a watan Nuwamba 1864 dutsen da ke kallon reshen Arewa na Kogin Shenandoah da Valley Turnpike ya sake zama filin yaƙi, yayin da rukunin rundunar sojan doki na Philip Sheridan suka yi yaƙi da Janar Jubal A. Early. Bayan da aka yi nasara da Early a yakin Fisher's Hill a ranar 22 ga Satumba, 1864, kuma a yakin Cedar Creek, arewacin Strasburg, a ranar 19 ga Oktoba, Sheridan ya yi amfani da dabarun da aka ƙone a ƙasa kuma ya hallaka tsarin tattalin arziki na Shenandoah Valley a matsayin wani ɓangare na yaƙin da ya yi da 'yan tawaye.
Yaƙin Kwarin 1864. Da wuri ya koma kusan mil 33 zuwa Rude's Hill mai kariya sosai, yana mamaye tudun daga Oktoba 21 <unk>31. Early ya tura dakarunsa zuwa arewa zuwa Woodstock kuma ya yi rikici, amma sai ya sake komawa zuwa Rude's Hill a ranar 12 ga Nuwamba. Biyu daga cikin rundunonin sojan doki na Sheridan sun bi Early, wanda ya tattara kuma ya tura sauran sojojinsa na Confederate a cikin layi a saman tudu a ranar 22 ga Nuwamba, 1864. Rundunar sojan doki ta Union ta bi 'yan Confederates amma an sake su a cikin wani aiki mai tsanani. Daga nan sai Early ya sake komawa daga Rude's Hill zuwa Harrisonburg, a ƙarshe ya koma ƙofar Shenandoah Valley a Browns Gap a cikin Blue Ridge. Sojojin Tarayyar sun kwashe gidan Locust Grove.