Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 89: what you’re looking at

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82 FISHER’S HILL. CHAPTER XV. FISHER’S HILL. It was on the fifteenth of September that General Grant left City Point to visit Sheridan at his head- quarters and consult with him on future work in the Shenandoah Valley. . At Charlestown the two generals met, and Sheri- dan soon made plain to the commander the true situ- ation in the valley. Grant, after hearing Sheridan’s plans and approv- ing them, asked if he could be ready to move the fol- lowing Tuesday. ‘Ves,’’ replied the latter, “‘by Monday;’’ and be- fore daylight that morning the army was in motion. By three o’clock in the afternoon it was drawn up in line of battle, in front of the rebel position at. Opequon Creek, and as soon .as the cavalry, under Torbert, arrived at the desired point.on the extreme Confederate right, Sheridan ordered a general ad- vanice. The artillery opened along the whole line—the columns moved steadily forward, and Early soon dis- covered that Sheridan was in earnest. His position, however, wasastrong one, and he stubbornly held it until Averill’s and Merritt’s bugles were heard on his right, as the firm-set squadrons bore fiercely down. Rolled up before the impetuous eRarie: the South- ern line at length crumbled into fragments, and the whole army broke in utter confusion and went stream- ing up the valley toward Winchester. Through Winchester the enemy were driven. Comicbooks.co