. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . om Clifton farm on the right to Berry-ville on the left. On this day there was short but fierce fight-ing between Averell and McCauslands cavalry at Bunker Hill,in which the latter was defeated with loss in prisoners, wagons,and supplies, and also between Crooks command and Ker-shaws division. The latter seems to have run, at nightfall,unexpectedly, into Crook, near Berryville, and was severelyp
. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . om Clifton farm on the right to Berry-ville on the left. On this day there was short but fierce fight-ing between Averell and McCauslands cavalry at Bunker Hill,in which the latter was defeated with loss in prisoners, wagons,and supplies, and also between Crooks command and Ker-shaws division. The latter seems to have run, at nightfall,unexpectedly, into Crook, near Berryville, and was severelypunished. Kershaw was of Longstreets corps and was thenunder orders to return to Lees army at Petersburg. Noother event of greater importance than a reconnoissance oc-curred until the 19th. Sheridans army was then composed of the Sixth Corpsunder Wright—three divisions, commanded, respectively, byGenerals David A. Russell, George W. Getty, and James , and an artillery brigade of six batteries; the Members of his staff reported Sheridan as saying that the request for his per-sonal body-guard was impudent, but could not be refused. ^ War Records, vol. xliii., Part I., 145. ^ Ibid.,
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