The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-10-27
"CEpAR CREEK. Va.

COIlIdlll5 1uILDCI PARTICULARS Ol ltit
battle Of Cedar Greek:
CEDAR CREEK, Va,
October 20-1:13 a. IN.
| Lieutenant General Grant. City Point
eve have again been favored by great
victory, won from disaster, by the gallantry
Of our officers and men. The attack on the
enemy was made about 3 o'clock in the af-
ternoon by a left half-wheei of the whole
line, with division Of cavalry turning each
flank of the enemy. The whole line ad-
vanced. The enemy, after stubborn re-
sistance, broke and fled, and were pushed
with vigor. The artillery captured will
probably be over so pieces. This, of course
includes what were captured from our troops
in the early morning. At least l, 600 pris-
oners have been brought in, also wagons
and ambulances in large numbers. This
morning the cavalry made dash at Fishers
Hill and carried it, the enemy having fled
during the night, leaving only a small rear
guard.
eve have to regret the loss of many val
liable officers killed and wounded, among
them Colonel Joseph Thorburn command
ing a division of Crooks com
mand, killed Colonel Howard Ketchen
commanding brigade wounded severely,
but would not leave the field. cannot yet
give the exact details. Many of our men
captured in the morning made their escape
and are coming in.
''Romesur, commanding a division in
Early's army, died this morning
''P. H. SHERIDAN"
General Grants appreciation of the vic
tory at Cedar creek is expressed in the FOL
lowing dispatch:
CITY POINT, October 20 8 p. m.
"Hon, E. NJ. Stanton, Secretary of War
81 had salute of 100 guns from each of
the armies here fired in honor of SEeridan's
last victory. Turning what bid fair to be
disaster, into glorious victory, stamps
Sheridan, what have always thought him,
one of the ablest of Generals
U. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant General"
The Medical Director reports that seven
ty, slightly wounded, have reached Winches-
ter from the field. All the wounded that
are able to bear transportation will be for
warded Immediately to Washington.
The telegraph line is now working to At
lanta.
No later reports have been received by
the Department.
EDWIN NJ. STANTON.
Secretary of War.
New YORK, October 21.
The Herald'S correspondent gives the fol-
lowing account of Sheridan's last victory
SIT was moonlight, and all around was the
stiffness usual to that hour. While this
stiffness was prevailing, the enemy had
noislessly massed a heavy column of troops
behind the hills on the southwest side of &C.
dar Creek and directly in front of the posi-
tons occupied by our extreme pickets At
a given signel, as we afterwards learned,
the enemy advanced rapidly in solid col
umns of regiments. Our pickets were
charged, some of them captured, and some
driven in hardly before they had time to dis
charge their muskets. In fact, what few
pickets did come, the enemy came in so
soon after, and so close to them, that it was
nearly a tie which party first warned the
slumbering camp Of our army of the danger
near at hand.
Having driven or captured our pickets
on the left of the line of the infantry, the
enemy charged across Cedar creek at the
ford, and very soon after on the bridge over
said stream, and reached the side Of the hill
and the breastworks occupied by Thorburn's
division Of the 9Th Army Corps [Crook'sl-
The rebels hesitated not, but pressed on
over all barriers, completely surprising, and
in measure stampeding the laft of Sheri-
dams line. By this success, the enemy
gained some artillery, l believe the 4th Penn
sylvania battery and some pieces of regu-
lar battery. The suddenness of the attack
and its wonderful success for a short time
bewildered the troops Many of them were
taken prisoners, but by far the greater por-
tion got away with their arms The other
division of Crooks corps, which was allowed
some time to form, did SO and was soon
formed in line by the remaining portions of
Thorburn's division. All this while the en-
envy kept pressing on and pouring in upon
our men a rapid and murderous fire from
musketry, as also from artillery posted upon
the hills on the opposite side of Cedar creek.
Having directed column against Crooks