A prisoner of war in Virginia 1864-5 . 1864, a day made famousby Sheridans decisive victory at Cedar the time of the battle, my regiment, whichbelonged to Grovers division of the 19th ArmyCorps, occupied a position on the extreme leftof the line that had been assigned to the our left, the field sloped down to the Shenan-doah Pike, while on the farther side of the pike,a rising ground extending to the flank of Massa-nutten Mountain was occupied by the 8th line of the entire army faced southward, theonly direction from which an attack seemed tobe possible. It was diff
A prisoner of war in Virginia 1864-5 . 1864, a day made famousby Sheridans decisive victory at Cedar the time of the battle, my regiment, whichbelonged to Grovers division of the 19th ArmyCorps, occupied a position on the extreme leftof the line that had been assigned to the our left, the field sloped down to the Shenan-doah Pike, while on the farther side of the pike,a rising ground extending to the flank of Massa-nutten Mountain was occupied by the 8th line of the entire army faced southward, theonly direction from which an attack seemed tobe possible. It was difficult in any case to believe that an at-tack was to be anticipated even from so persistentand plucky an opponent as General Early. Withinthe preceding thirty days, Earlys army had beensent whirling through Winchester, and had beendriven back from its works on Fishers Hill, witha serious loss of men and of guns. , It seemed cer-tainly very unlikely that these beaten, tired, andhungry troops could venture an attack uponSheridans The Attack 7 The battle of Cedar Creek has been often de-scribed, and the main events are, of course, familiarto all of my readers who were present or who havekept themselves interested in the record of thedecisive events of the war. My individual re-lation to it was but small, as I was taken posses-sion of during the early hours of that strenuousmorning. We were aroused in the foggy darknessby the sound of firing across the pike on our realised that something was wrong with ourfriends in the 8th Corps, but it was impossible tosee across the road, and during the first hour ourunderstanding of what was happening was veryconfused. In falling into line on the alarm, wefaced, as said, to the south, but when round shotcame rolling along our trench from across the pike,it was evident that the attack to be repelled wasto come from the east or from the brigade was wheeled to the left so as to face,or nearly to face, the pike, and bef
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