. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . s not properly protected; crept along thefront of Crooks Corps, thus exposing himseK to immensedanger. But, favored by darkness and fog, he came intoposition unobserved, and just before dawn of the 19th ofOctober, his men were lying in battle order not six hundredyards distant from our unsuspecting lines. Sheridan wasabsent, and the enemy knew it. The rebels also believed thatthe Sixth Corps had been withdra-v\-n from the Valley and sentto Grant. Those real advantages gave them power ; the sup-posed advantages strengthened their morale. When fa
. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . s not properly protected; crept along thefront of Crooks Corps, thus exposing himseK to immensedanger. But, favored by darkness and fog, he came intoposition unobserved, and just before dawn of the 19th ofOctober, his men were lying in battle order not six hundredyards distant from our unsuspecting lines. Sheridan wasabsent, and the enemy knew it. The rebels also believed thatthe Sixth Corps had been withdra-v\-n from the Valley and sentto Grant. Those real advantages gave them power ; the sup-posed advantages strengthened their morale. When fairly inposition, they sprang up with an unearthly yell, pouredupon our sleeping troops, seized batteries, which they turnedupon us, enfilading our lines, and roUed back our left. Theconfusion spread—the troops began to retreat—in parts itwas a rout. SHERIDAN RIDES TOST FROM WINCHESTER. Sheridan was at Winchester, twenty miles away, whenthe distant and faintly audible booming of cannon struckhis ear. He mounted in hot haste, and riding like a. SHERIDANS OPERATIONB IN -ni . VAIJ^T. 386 QRAIsTr AND HIS CA^IPAIGNS. courier, lie arrived upon the field at ten oclock, his horsecovered with foam, and, hke the Twin Brethren at the LakeRegillus, his presence staved the ebbing tide, and turned itinto a destructive flood. Moving hke hghtning among theretreating troops, he swung his hat in the air, shouting at thetop of his voice, Face tlie other way, boys! we are goingback! Pushing forward past the stragglers, who at oncebegan to rally, he reached the main body, repeating his fierywords. Boys, he added, if I had been here, this nevershould have happened; we are going back. An-anging andstrengthening his hues while the enemy had, most of them,stopped for a time to plunder our camps, he was just in readi-ness to move forward, when the rebels came in for a newand overwhelming assault. Resisting this manfully, he caughtits surge, and hmled it back; assumed the offensive;atta
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