Abraham Lincoln : a history . this charge General Rodes lost hislife—a damage not compensated by the momentarysuccess. The tide was instantly turned by a chargeof equal gallantry from the National side attendedby an equal calamity. A brigade of General D. division, led by Russell and Upton inperson, rushed with splendid courage and swiftnessinto the gap, struck the advancing Confederates inflank, driving them back and taking many prisoners,and reestablished the Union line — but the gallantand devoted Russell fell dead at the moment of hisvictory. Up to this time Crook had been held
Abraham Lincoln : a history . this charge General Rodes lost hislife—a damage not compensated by the momentarysuccess. The tide was instantly turned by a chargeof equal gallantry from the National side attendedby an equal calamity. A brigade of General D. division, led by Russell and Upton inperson, rushed with splendid courage and swiftnessinto the gap, struck the advancing Confederates inflank, driving them back and taking many prisoners,and reestablished the Union line — but the gallantand devoted Russell fell dead at the moment of hisvictory. Up to this time Crook had been held in reserve;it had been Sheridans original intention to throwhim in upon the left to turn the Confederate right,seize the Valley pike south of Winchester, and cutoff Earlys retreat; and for a while, even after hehad discovered that he was fighting Earlys wholearmy, he hoped to accomplish this object. But theenergy of the attack upon the Union right at lastconvinced him that it would be best to turn the 302 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. SHERIDAN IN THE SHENANDOAH 303 Confederate left at whatever cost, and this task ch. xiilwas assigned to Crooks force. He moved forward BeJ$£9>at once along the line of the Red Bud, a little rivu-let which bounded the battlefield on the north, asAbrahams Run bounded it on the south. H. division took the north side of the streamand Joseph Thoburns the south, and they movedtogether with irresistible momentum against thebit of woods in which General Gordons troopswere posted. There was no withstanding the rush of thisfresh and compact force, and Gordon was drivenback towards Winchester. The Union cavalrywere at this juncture swarming in upon the Con-federate left. Torbert, Merritt, and Averill hadbeen fighting all day, with various degrees of suc-cess, on all the roads running north from Stephen-sons; they had driven the Confederate cavalrypell-mell before them and had finally dislodgedBreckinridges infantry from its advanced positionand forced it
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