. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . 163 164 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT After the fight at Fort Stevens, Jubal Early retreated upthe Shenandoah Valley, followed by the Sixth Corps untilthey were recalled to go back to Petersburg. Early findingthe Sixth Corps was on its way to rejoin the Army of the Potomac, turned and droveCrook out of the valley. Gen-eral Grant then decided toclean the valley out, and pre-vent further attempts of in-vasion of the North, so he sentSheridan with his cavalry to.
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . 163 164 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT After the fight at Fort Stevens, Jubal Early retreated upthe Shenandoah Valley, followed by the Sixth Corps untilthey were recalled to go back to Petersburg. Early findingthe Sixth Corps was on its way to rejoin the Army of the Potomac, turned and droveCrook out of the valley. Gen-eral Grant then decided toclean the valley out, and pre-vent further attempts of in-vasion of the North, so he sentSheridan with his cavalry to. WM. GREEN,Sergeant Co. F, take charge of all the troops,consisting of the CavalryCorps, Sixth Corps underGeneral Wright; the EightCorps, under General Crook,and the Nineteenth Corpsunder General Emroy, he con-centrating them at Charles-town, Va., General Jubal Earlycommanding the Confederate forces concentrating his troopsat Winchester, Va. Both armies were about evenly matched, each havingabout 36,000 infantry, cavalry and artillery. There was march-ing and countermarching, advance and counter advance, then ademonstration and fall back from Winchester to HarpersFerry. These movements were received with great discontent atthe North. The campaign for the Presidential election beingnear at hand, gold rising higher and higher. President Lincolnbecame uneasy and wrote Grant one of his wisest mutterings caused Grant to visit Sheridan at Charles-town, with the intention of giving him a plan of battle, buthe found Sheridan so ready to move that he gave no plan ororder whatever,
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