. 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 . edtwenty miles. There was heavy skirmishing today nearSmithfield six miles from here. The forces moved toDarkesville six miles below. On June 30th LieutenantGrass with his company was ordered to start at three oclockand go as far as Smithfield and from there to Leetownand from there to Kernstown and from there to camp atDarkesville. In this time we marched twenty-eight miles. i On July 1st we remained in camp at Darkesville
. 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 . edtwenty miles. There was heavy skirmishing today nearSmithfield six miles from here. The forces moved toDarkesville six miles below. On June 30th LieutenantGrass with his company was ordered to start at three oclockand go as far as Smithfield and from there to Leetownand from there to Kernstown and from there to camp atDarkesville. In this time we marched twenty-eight miles. i On July 1st we remained in camp at Darkesville actingas an advance post or picket. Nothing occurred of any im-portance during the day. The next day the company re-mained on the outpost with an advance picket well to thefront. This morning the Confederates under Early werereported moving down the valley in force. This was theday on which we reached Winchester, and our outpostswere attacked the next morning at daylight. We drove theenemy back about a mile. At nine oclock the Confeder-ates, advancing a long skirmish line of infantry and ca-valry, charged us when we withdrew about one-half mile. EARLYS INVASION 211. P CO s 212 ELWOODS STORIES when two companies of the 15th New York came to ourrescue. They charged the Confederates and drove themnear their battle line when they opened on us with artil-lery, and our forces withdrew with some little this scrap we lost four men killed and a number wound-ed. Our outpost numbered one hundred strong, the re-serves and all. The Confederates Avere thirty thousand allarms. The Ringgolds lost one man missing, Alfred Meri-deth, on the skirmish line. We never heard of him tillfifty years afterwards. The supposition was that he waskilled in the charge. On July 4th we fell back through Martinsburg. HereGeneral Sigel had his headquarters. Here there was alarge amount of all kinds of supplies. Some were burnedwhile others fell into the hands of the enemy. GeneralSigel continued his
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