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artillery and some very valuable officers and men, but the main part of my force and all my trains had been saved, and the enemy's loss in killed and wounded was far greater than mine.
When I look back to this battle, I can but attribute my escape from utter annihilation to the incapacity of my opponent.1
1 The enemy has called this battle “The battle of the Opequon,” but I know of no claim it has to that title, unless it be in the fact that, after his repulse in the forepart of the day, some of his troops ran back across that stream.
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