were also killed; Generals Fitzhugh Lee and York were severely
wounded.

This battle was inspiriting to the country. Lincoln, Stanton, and
Grant each wired congratulations and thanks.(17)

Sheridan was now appointed a Brigadier-General in the regular army
and assigned to the permanent command of the Middle Military
District.

The Valley was soon to further reek with blood, and the torch of
war was soon to consume it.

( 1) Sheridan was born March 6, 1831, and died August 5, 1888.

( 2) Mrs. Ricketts drove from Washington to Bull Run in her own
carriage and besought Gen. J. E. Johnston to parole her husband,
and allow her to take him to his home in Washington. This was
refused, and her carriage was confiscated. In after years, when
the Johnstons were in Washington, he holding high political positions,
she refused to recognize them.

( 3) Members of his staff reported Sheridan as saying that the
request for his personal body-guard was impudent, but could not be
refused.

( 4) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., 145.

( 5) _Ibid_., 45.

( 6) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., pp. 107-112.

( 7) _Ibid_., p. 61.

( 8) Grant's _Memoirs_, vol. ii., p. 328.

( 9) Sheridan's _Memoirs_, vol. ii., pp. 4-7.

(10) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., p. 46.

(11) _Ibid_., p. 555.

(12) _Ibid_., Part II., pp. 102-3.

(13) Colonel Horn survived the war, and died near Mitchellville,
Md., October 4, 1897.

(14) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., 118.

(15) _Ibid_., p. 113.

(16) _Ibid_., p. 555.

(17) _Ibid_., pp. 61-2.

CHAPTER IX
Battle of Fisher's Hill--Pursuit of Early--Devastation of the
Shenandoah Valley (1864)--Cavalry Battle at Tom's Brook, and Minor
Events

We left Sheridan's victorious army south of Winchester, five miles
from the battle-field. It had only such opportunity for rest as
can be obtained on the night succeeding a long day's battle. Some
of the officers and soldiers returned to the scene of the conflict
through the gloom of night, to minister to the wounded and to find
and identify the bodies of dead friends. It was, however, the duty
of the surgeons, hospital attendants, ambulance corps, and stretcher-
bearers to care for the wounded; and the dead of both armies could
be buried later. The bodies of some of the dead of the successful
army are always sent home for interment. Chaplains are often
instrumental in doing the latter. Rations, forage, and am