. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . 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 t
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . 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 totake 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 Charlessr^eanTcoP. town,Va., General Jubal Early commanding the Confederate forces concentrating his troops at Winchester, Va. , , u ■ 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 The
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