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J. Jackson. When General Joseph E. Johnston relieved Colonel Jackson, the forces were withdrawn from Harper's Ferry, and the headquarters of that army were at Winchester, in the Shenandoah valley. On July 1, 1861, General Patterson crossed the Potomac at Williamsport with the intention of operating against General Johnston, aode into their midst, and without the firing of a pistol took the entire company of thirty or forty men. On the 18th of July, Johnston withdrew his army from Winchester, and moved toward Manassas. Stuart's entire command consisted of twenty-one officers and three hundred and thirteen men. All were well mounted and at home on he Blue Ridge, and marching northward. The country was checkered with stone fences, strongly built and in good condition. Along the turnpike from Washington to Winchester, passing through Aldie, Middleburg, Upperville, and Paris there was continuous and severe fighting in which the cavalry alone participated. A Federal force, fo
y achieved a victory which sent the Confederates under Early whirling through Winchester, as Sheridan tersely stated in a telegram which electrified the people of theconditioned in spite of the constant marching and fighting. fallen back on Winchester, leaving General Early's flank protected by his cavalry, which was successfully attacked by General Devin's Second Brigade and driven in confusion toward Winchester. Then within easy supporting distance of each other, the First Brigade, the Se Reserve Brigade moved forward without opposition until the open fields near Winchester were reached. What followed is well described in Lieutenant Harrison's rec rout, our men sabering them as they vainly sought safety in flight. After Winchester--General Thomas C. Devin and staff We have just sent them whirling through Winchester, and we are after them tomorrow, was Sheridan's exultant wire of September 19, 1864, which electrified the North. Washington breathed a deep sigh of reli
has evidently requested the distinguished sitters to inspect a map, as if they were planning some actual movement such as that which sent Early whirling through Winchester. All but Sheridan have been obliging. General Forsyth is leaning over, hand on chin, one foot on a rung of Merritt's chair. Meritt has cast down his eyes andf age. In scholarship he was rated at the middle of his class, and in the other soldierly qualities he was near the head. . . . At the battle of the Opequon (Winchester), on September 19th, his division gave the most effective instance in a hundred years of war, of the use of a cavalry division in a pitched battle. He rode ove the Army of Northern Virginia, first as colonel, from July, 1862, as brigadier-general, and from September, 1863, as major-general. He was severely wounded at Winchester, on September 19, 1864, and from March, 1865, until his surrender to General Meade at Farmville, was in command of all the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virgi
ting with him would be that the person receiving him would see that he was never ill-treated, and General Sheridan's Winchester Winchester wore no such gaudy trappings when he sprang up from the South, at break of day on that famous ride of OcWinchester wore no such gaudy trappings when he sprang up from the South, at break of day on that famous ride of October 19, 1864, which has been immortalized in Thomas Buchanan Read's poem. The silver-mounted saddle was presented later by admiring friends of his owner. The sleek neck then was dark with sweat, and the quivering nostrils were flecked with foam a the Cavalry Corps. At the battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, the name of the horse was changed from Rienzi to Winchester, a name derived from the town made famous by Sheridan's ride Mounts for all the cavalrymen Behind this mixed commine, by General G. W. Forsyth, who accompanied Sheridan as aide-de-camp, the following is quoted: The distance from Winchester to Cedar Creek, on the north bank of which the Army of the Shenandoah lay encamped, is a little less than nineteen mile
was without hay for twenty-one days, in a country where but little grazing was possible. During Sheridan's last raid, in 1865, nearly three-fourths of the lameness of his horses was due to an involuntary change of forage from oats to corn. But much of the breaking-down of cavalry horses was merely inseparable from the hardships and privations which every great war carries in its train, and which the most experienced leaders cannot foresee or prevent. In General Sheridan's march from Winchester to Petersburg, February 27th to March 27, 1865, each trooper carried on his horse, in addition to his regular equipment, five days rations in haversacks, seventy-five rounds of ammunition, and thirty pounds of forage. On General James H. Wilson's Selma expedition, each trooper carried, besides his ordinary kit, five days rations, twenty-four pounds of grain, one hundred rounds of ammunition, and two extra horseshoes. A remarkable case, illustrating the conditions surrounding the war se