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slope of the Alleghanies, with directions to burn all forage and drive off all stock, as they moved to the rear.
This was in compliance with Grant's orders to ‘leave nothing for the subsistence of an army on any ground abandoned to the enemy.’
‘The most positive orders were given, however, not to burn dwellings.’
Early followed at a respectful distance, but on the 8th, his cavalry under Rosser, came up with Sheridan near Woodstock, and harassed Custer's division as far as Tom's Brook, three or four miles south of Fisher's Hill.
That night Torbert, in command of the national horse, was ordered to engage the rebel cavalry at daybreak, and notified
New York Appleton 1885.
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