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Title: Vermont in the Civil War (Volume 1): a history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, G. G. (George Grenville), 1826-1907
Subjects: Vermont. Militia
Publisher: Burlington, Vt. : Free Press Association
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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le below the turnpike bridge,by which Wharton crossed. Early says he came in sight ofthe Union picket fires at half-past three oclock, and haltedhis column for an hour, when he ordered Kershaw forward.By this time Gordon was crossing the Shenandoah atMclntyres and Bowmans fords, his men wading the stream,which was breast high, and before five oclock he had creptthrough the Union picket line, and deployed his leading divis-ions, unmolested, in the rear of the camp of the Eighthcorps. That so large a force should have been able to makeits way undisco vered through the Union line, showed strangeover-confidence and neglect of duty on the part of the picketsat that point. It was said that some of the Union picketsreported hearing a sound as of the tread of many feet, in thenight hours, but no one took or gave alarm. Kershaw crossed Cedar Creek with equal stillness andsuccess, capturing a lieutenant colonel and 18 men of an Ohioregiment, who were on picket, without firing a shot or creating
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