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Title: History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Prowell, George Reeser, 1849-1928
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 87th (1861-1865)
Publisher: York, Pa., Press of the York daily
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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his victory, Sheridan went to the school roomof Miss Wright, in Winchester, and wrote this dispatch to Gen-eral Grant and to the authorities at Washington: We havejust sent the enemy whirling through Winchester, and we areafter them tomorrow. This army behaved splendidly. Congratulations from all sides poured in upon the command-er-in-chief of this army. President Lincoln wrote the following:Have just heard of your great victory. God bless you all,officers and men. In his Personal Memoirs General Grant says, Sheridanwon a most decisive victory which electrified the whole coun-try. I congratulated him, and had a salute of 100 guns firedin honor of it, the guns being aimed at the enemys forts aroundPetersburg. I notified the other commands who also fired asalute in honor of this victory/ The battle of the Opequon was accepted as a vindication ofSheridans views and policy. The confidence with which hethat day inspired his troops proved invaluable in the subsequentstages of the campaign.
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) — 209 — The army began to move at daylight of September 20, The6th Corps was on the left. The 87th moved with the 1st Bri-gade, except a detachment of the regiment which remained inWinchester one day longer for provost duty. During the after-noon of the 20th, Wright and Emory with their corps arrivedat Cedar Creek, and crossing it went into position on theheights fronting Strasburg. The 6th Corps was now on the right, the 19th on the left andthe 8th Corps, when it came up, was halted on the left bank ofCedar Creek. By evening the Union pickets occupied thenorthern part of Strasburg, and the Confederate pickets thesouthern. At daylight of September 21, Sheridan with his staff rodefrom one end of the Union picket line to the other, noting theground and the enemys position. Then with General Wrighthe reconnoitered the right flank. General Wright then sent two:regiments from Ricketts Division and one from Gettys to seizea high point confronting the enemys main position. But Early,kn

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