The Ninth New York heavy artillery : a history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out, with accounts of life in a rebel prison, personal experiences, names and addresses of surviving members, personal sketches and a complete roster of the regiment . counter-attackin the afternoon, yet the ground they then stood upon, fromthe mad to the brook, measures barely 7100 feet. With allallowances, therefore, Sheridan can not have taken more thanMMM) men into this attack. This leaves out Crooks men bodily,and tails for 5500 unrepentant stragg
The Ninth New York heavy artillery : a history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out, with accounts of life in a rebel prison, personal experiences, names and addresses of surviving members, personal sketches and a complete roster of the regiment . counter-attackin the afternoon, yet the ground they then stood upon, fromthe mad to the brook, measures barely 7100 feet. With allallowances, therefore, Sheridan can not have taken more thanMMM) men into this attack. This leaves out Crooks men bodily,and tails for 5500 unrepentant stragglers from the ranks ofEniory aud Wright—one man in three. After all there is noth- 13 194 NINTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. ing so extraordinary in this, but strange indeed would it havebeen if many of these skulkers had come back into the fightas Sheridan considerately declares they did. As to Earlys force, the difficulty of coming to a positiveconclusion is even greater. General Early himself says he wentinto the battle with but 8800 muskets. General Dawes, per-haps the most accomplished statistician of the war, makes thetotal present for duty, ; of these 15,000 would be figures presented in the Century War Book call for 15,000of all arms. Of these 10,000 would be infantry. ^?i *_. fSS^sr % FORD AT CEDAR CREEK. C H A PTER XI X. From Cedar Creek to Petersburg. If possible the day after a battle is more trying to the nervesthan the tight itself. Then there is the excitement, amountingalmost to intoxication, to prompt the soldier to action, but whenthe foe has tied and we seek out and bury our dead, then cometeats, the trembling lip, and the heartache, to last till its latestthrob. One man buries on the field his tent-mate. To onenorthern home will go the sad news that husband and father FROM CEDAR CREEK TO PETERSBURG. 195 are slain on the same day and now sleep side by side. Fordays after the light, along the stone walls, dark, clotted massesproclaim the pool
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