...oss the Shenandoah river, and seize the road to Winchester, in the rear of the national army. It was one of the best concerted schemes of the war. Soon after dark the rebels moved silently from Strasburg and Fisher's Hill. Favored by night and a heavy fog, Gordon crossed the river, crept unobserved under the guns of Crook, re-crossed the North Fork at Bowman's ford, and before daybreak had struck t...