Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Patterson's Creek” in page 333 of Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A.:
...rongly fortified, but having no artillery he abandoned the attempt to dislodge the enemy without making an attack.
He then moved down to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, destroyed the bridge over Patterson's Creek and that over the South Branch partially, collected a large number of cattle, and came off with the captured wagons, and prisoners, and
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