Marched at 4 o'clock a. m., passed through Snickersville on
a narrow stony road, and arrived at Snicker's Gap about noon. We went through
the gap, but on arriving at the Shenandoah river at Island Ford about 6 o'clock
p. m. found that some of Crook's force had crossed and was skirmishing; did not
fight very well; fell back to the river in a stampede, plunged in and some were
drowned; probably green troops. Mosby's guerillas have been in our rear all day
and robbed some of our stragglers. The artillery shelling this evening made us
feel uncomfortable, as the shells landed right among us.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 124-5
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