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The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
manœuvred by General Sheridan. Whilst his different columns were being marched to the appointed place of rendezvous, a portion of the cavalry, under Torbert and Averill, kept up a strong picket along the Opequon, and, by demonstrating in force at Burns's ford, kept a large portion of the enemy at that part of the field, which wa rode along the lines, and was received with the most vociferous cheering, the men promising to "go in and wipe out Winchester." General Torbert, with Merritt and Averill's divisions of cavalry, having crossed the Opequon about nine o'clock at Burns's and Knox's fords, had been hard at work all day, fighting considerable bodies of h could in any way impede their night, and strewing the ground with their arms. Some made for the heights beyond Winchester, but they were speedily lislodged by Averill and forced to beat a hasty and ignominious retreat up the Valley, where such of Early's command as are left him are now scattered. Our victory was a glorious