. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . or the counter-attackin the afternoon, yet the ground they then stood upon, fromthe road to the brook, measures barely 7400 feet. With allallowances, therefore, Sheridan can not have taken more than8000 men into this attack. This leaves out Crooks men bodilv,and calls for 5500 unrepentant stragglers from the ranks offcmory and Wright-one man in three. After all there is noth- 194 NINTH NEW YORK HEAVY ART
. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . or the counter-attackin the afternoon, yet the ground they then stood upon, fromthe road to the brook, measures barely 7400 feet. With allallowances, therefore, Sheridan can not have taken more than8000 men into this attack. This leaves out Crooks men bodilv,and calls for 5500 unrepentant stragglers from the ranks offcmory and Wright-one man in three. After all there is noth- 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 the »total present for duty. 22,000; of these 15,000 would be figures presented in the Century War Book call for 15,000 iof all arms. Of these 10,000 would be FORD AT CEDAR CREEK. CHAPTER XIX. From Cedar Creek to Petersburg. If possible the day after a battle is more trying to the nervesthan the fight itself. Then there is the excitement, amountingalmost to intoxication, to prompt the soldier to action, but whenthe foe has fled and we seek out and bury our dead, then cometears, 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 fight, along the stone walls, dark, clotted massesproclaim the pools of blood where life was rendered. Besides our own comrades, lying with their white upturnedfaces, the ground is strewn with the d
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