We were ordered to commence our retrogade movement at 8.30
o'clock, but didn't till about 10 o'clock a. m. As usual our division goes as
train guard. We passed through Middletown about midnight; didn't stop to do
much foraging; arrived at Newtown about 2 o'clock a. m., and passing through,
the men nearly stripping the place of everything; got breakfast at Winchester
and stopped near Clifton farm. Foraging is allowed, owing to the levies made
for money on places by the enemy, which if not paid have been burnt, in
Maryland and Pennsylvania, such as Williamsport, Chambersburg, etc. It is
desired, too, to strip the Shenandoah Valley of all supplies in order to keep
the enemy out of it.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 136
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