The enemy followed us and overtook our rear guard at
Winchester where Generals Torbert and Wilson and the New Jersey brigade of the
Sixth Corps had a sharp little fight last night losing it's said, one hundred
and eighty in killed, wounded and prisoners. We were aroused to form line of
battle this morning at 4 o'clock. We got breakfast and marched about 6 o'clock
a. m. It rained constantly all forenoon and was lowering this afternoon; dined
at Clifton farm; marched to Charlestown and bivouacked at 9 o'clock p. m. We
have got to make three days' rations last five.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 137
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