. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . cavalryknew what Moffitt was composed of and some who werenot knew. The knife Sergeant Moffitt still has as a re-minder of the charge and retreat at Kernstown, accordingto number one of the greatest of the Shenandoah valleywas so said by officers and men at the time. When General Duffie ordered Captain Hart to chargethe enemys position, July 23rd, at Kernstown, he told thegeneral that there were enough Confederates over the
. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . cavalryknew what Moffitt was composed of and some who werenot knew. The knife Sergeant Moffitt still has as a re-minder of the charge and retreat at Kernstown, accordingto number one of the greatest of the Shenandoah valleywas so said by officers and men at the time. When General Duffie ordered Captain Hart to chargethe enemys position, July 23rd, at Kernstown, he told thegeneral that there were enough Confederates over thereto fight a brigade. Duffie replied that there was only acorporals guard, but the next morning that corporalsguard attacked us in force at Kernstown about ten noon the battle was on in earnest when the enemy suc-ceeded in making a flank move on our left. This causedour lines to retire with some confusion. The enemy taking HARTS FAMOUS CHARGE 223 advantage of this charged. Our lines gave way for somelittle distance and were reinforced. This was done inperfect military order. Seeing that he was greatly out-numbered. General Crook ordered a retreat. The old. HOPKINS MOFFITT Hinggold cavalry, with other forces, was ordered to forma line in front of our retreating column and hold everyman within our lines. This prevented a panic. That sameCorporals guard drove ten thousand of as good troops as«ver trod the Shenandoah valley toward Winchester. The25th of July we were at Martinsburg in a fair shape for a 224 ELWOODS STORIES fight with anything near our number, after marching allnight in a drenching rain, bringing a large wagon trainwith us. Thus far there was some skirmishing. Duringthe afternoon one of our brigades charged the enemy driv-ing him through Martinsburg, when General Duffie camein on the enemys left driving him a mile and a half be-yond the town. At dark we continued to fall back, andduring the night we reached the river at Williamsport,Maryland. At daylight o
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