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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
oah at Front Royal on the 16th, and drove the enemy's cavalry, which retreated towards Winchester, burning the hay and wheat stacks in their route. On the 17th, Sheridan began to retire from his position, was pursued, and two divisions of the Sixth corps, with a large force of cavalry, were overtaken at Winchester and driven throrom Winchester, in a valley between the river and the Blue Ridge, near the junction of the counties of Culpeper, Fauquier and Shenandoah. Strasburg, from whence Sheridan commenced his retreat, is in the northern part of Shenandoah county, on the north branch of the Shenandoah river, immediately on the main road from Woodstock to Winchester, and eighteen miles south of the latter place. It is stated (not officially) that Sheridan's entire force in the Valley amounts to 41,000 men. His retirement from our front to Harper's Ferry may be regarded as a prudential measure on his part. It is reported that on Thursday, the 18th instant, General Early ca