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The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
bout sundown. The same evening our whole army retired to Newtown, and the next morning to Fisher's Hill. This position, pronounced by military men to be the strongest in the Valley, is eighteen miles from Winchester and seventy- two from Staunton. It is overlooked from the east by the Massanutton mountain, from which it is separated by the north branch of the Shenandoah river; while on the west it is protected by the North mountain, and along its front base flows a small branch called Cumberland run. It cannot be flanked, except by a circuitous route of fifty miles through a mountainous and almost impassable country. It was to this position that General Early fell back some two months ago, and defied Sheridan, who came against him with an overwhelming force. In the battle, which was a very severe one, we took some five hundred or seven hundred prisoners; more, it is said, than we lost, although the enemy claim any number from twenty-five hundred to five thousand. In evacuati