Identifier: abrahamlinco2104nico (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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oad parallel to the one bywhich Early was escaping but could not efficientlypursue him. There is a limit to human endurance,and these troops had been for fifteen hours on foot,marching and fighting. The reserve had been putinto action on the right and no flank movementwas possible from that side. The cavalry followedup the pike to Kernstown and came in contactwith Ramseur, who still held firm in the rear; butas night came on the pursuit ceased, and thebeaten Confederates marched on through the dark-ness to Strasburg. The list of the casualties shows how fierce wasthe fighting in this fairly won battle. The loss onthe Union side was nearly 5000,4300 of whom werekilled and wounded. Among the killed was thelamented Russell; among the wounded were Gen-erals E. Upton, J. B. Mcintosh, and G. H. Chapman,and Colonels Isaac H. Duval and Jacob Sharpe.Earlys loss was less, about 4000, and 2000 of thesewere prisoners; he lost heavily in valuable officers,Generals R. E. Rodes and A. C. Godwin, and
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GENERAL F1TZHUGH LEE. SHERIDAN IN THE SHENANDOAH 305 Colonel W. T. Patton, killed; Generals Fitzhugh ch. xni.Lee and Zebulon York, severely wounded. As theUnion troops were constantly attacking and alwaysin the open field, their heavier losses in killed andwounded are readily accounted for. The victorywas one of the most important of the war. Thecountry had become restive and impatient at thesuccession of costly and unremunerative battleswhich Grant had delivered in Virginia. The ad-vance of Early to the walls of Washington and hisunpunished retreat, his long visit to the lower Val-ley, his incendiary raids in Maryland and Penn-sylvania, had brought the public mind to a pointof exasperation which had in it a serious danger tothe Union cause. This brilliant victory of Sheri-dan, unpromised and unheralded, prepared withinfinite prudence and pains, and then carriedthrough with such dash and valor, was greetedwith an outburst of patriotic joy. Sheridansdispatch, with its trooper-like phra

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