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official report: ‘The result was such that I have never since deemed it necessary to visit General Sheridan before giving him orders.’
Early fell back in the night as far as Newtown, and next day to Fisher's Hill, four miles south of Strasburg; and at daylight on the 20th, Sheridan moved rapidly up the Valley in pursuit.
Fisher's Hill is immediately south of a little stream called Tumbling river, and at this point the rebels had erected breastworks reaching across the Valley, here only three and a half miles wide.
So secure indeed did Early now consider himself that his ammunition boxes were taken from the caissons and placed behind the breastworks.
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New York Appleton 1885.
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