. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . as not properly protected; crept along thefront of Crooks Corps, thus exposing himself 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 The rebels also believed thatthe Sixth Corps had been withdrawn from the Valley and sentto Grant. Those real advantages gave them power ; the sup-posed advantages strengthened their morale. When fai
. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . as not properly protected; crept along thefront of Crooks Corps, thus exposing himself 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 The rebels also believed thatthe Sixth Corps had been withdrawn from the Valley and sentto Grant.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 rolled back our left. Theconfusion spread—the troops began to retreat—in parts itwas a rout. SHERIDAN RIDES POST FROM WINCHESTER. Sheridan was at Winchester, twenty miles away, whenthe distant and faintly audible booming of cannon struckIns ear. He mounted in hot haste, and riding like a. SHERIDANS OPERATIONS IX THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY. 386 GRANT AND HIS CAMPxYIGNS. courier, be arrived upon the field at ten oclock, his horsecovered with foam, and, like the Twin Brethren at the LakeRegillus, his presence stayed the ebbing tide, and turned itinto a destructive flood. Moving like lightning among theretreating troops, he swung his hat in the air, shouting at thetop of his voice, Face the 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. Arranging andstrengthening his lines 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. Besisting this manfully, he caughtits surge, and hurled it back; assumed the offensive;attacked
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