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The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
1st is full of accounts of the Winchester fight. The Yankees performed their usual nonsense over the news. Salutes of one hundred guns at Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other cities; and at New York, upon the receipt of the intelligence, the "national" flag was flung out from the public buildings. A letter, describing the engagement. says: Sheridan having learned on Sunday that the main portion of Early's forces were encamped in the vicinity of Bunker Hill and Stephenson's depot, resolved to mass his forces on the Winchester and Berryville pike, and, by a rapid movement, hurt them on Early's rear. No doubt but that the enemy were completely surprised and out 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 th