. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... He had heard the firing at Winchester,twenty miles away, and had ridden at fullspeed from that place to rejoin his army. Heat once ordered it to advance upon Early,whose men, laden with the plunder of thecaptured camp, were driven back with terribleforce and pursued up the valley for thirtymiles. This success cleared the valley of theConfederate forces, for Early was not ableafter this to collect more than a handful ofmen, and Lee had no troops to spare him.
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... He had heard the firing at Winchester,twenty miles away, and had ridden at fullspeed from that place to rejoin his army. Heat once ordered it to advance upon Early,whose men, laden with the plunder of thecaptured camp, were driven back with terribleforce and pursued up the valley for thirtymiles. This success cleared the valley of theConfederate forces, for Early was not ableafter this to collect more than a handful ofmen, and Lee had no troops to spare brilliant victories cost him a totalloss of seventeen thousand men. A more extended account of Q neraiSheridans operations, by the historian. Wilson, will be of interest to thereader: As Sheridan returned down the valleytowards Cedar Creek, he was closely followedby the Confederate cavalry under Rosser,supported by the main body of Earlys October ninth, the head of Sheridansinfantry column having entered Strasburgbythe east road, while the rear was still somemiles further south, the enemy following the. PONTOON BRIDGE AT DEEP BOTTOM. cavalry on the west road, had advanced sofar as to get on the left flank of the infantrycolumn. Custer and Merrittthen turned andattacked with their cavalry, when a reporthaving spread among Rossers men that theNational infantry were at the same timeflanking them, they immediately gave wayand broke into a stampede. The pursuit wascontinued seven miles. The loss of theenemy was not great, being only about threehundred men, including prisoners; but heabandoned eleven guns, four caissons, and aoammunition train. ^U THE CIVIL WAR. Things remained quiet for several daysafter this affair; but on the twelfth, the Con-federates again appeared in the neighborhoodof Strasburg and opened an artillery fire onEmorys and Crooks corps. These troopswere then partially withdrawn and Crookpushed out a reconnoissance, which brought
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