The National tribune., 1909-01-28
CEDAR CREEK.
A Spectacular and Dramatic Battle.
works at foot Of CUPS Hill


Editor National Tribune: Tho Cedar
Creek battle b 30 fraCsht with events,
anniversary and psychological, one ID
sequence for data. 'Tis propsr. how
ever. to first mention the Daughter
of the Stars" and follow by Brown
October's" artistic pencilings as there
disclosed by the SUMS up.ift OF gauZy.
fleecy cloud draperies from of her
form each morn. which never failed to
show her Of psychic mold divine
Thus comes it to us to-day how, bask-
ing in such sights. we're wont to pity
the old god whom Venus struck blind
at the bath. Harking back. there ever
follows the chant and chorus OF the
insect creation to the "sear and yellow
leaf" and the hush only when in sane
tity we piilowed our heads on the bosom
of the star-eyed beauty. Such the bliss
fulness of that somnolenoy and ecstattc
pose of the Army Of the Shenandoah,
when Gen. Jubal Early gave out his
celebrated lottery ticket to Gen. John
B. Gordon, with the order to deliver
! same ere the peep O day. and on which
we fully cashed in before dark, Oct.
Gen. O'Harra had performed like
service for Gen. Cornwallis, Oct. 10,
1871, and that event suffloed for Cor
/ don's authority to act accordingly.
| With the rat-a-tat-tat of reveille in
the Sixth Corps came the decorating
| crash Of rifles on our right that We'd
with Rienzi's hoof beats on the Valley
Pike up from Winchester. Soon there
after there came from the sleeps out
Strasburg way a splitting, flashing fog
bank, charged with sulphurous smoke
and blue and gray humanity grappliEs
in death throes.
| Out from that semi-aqueous and con-
1 tal oln yaftaA of n,yN fAof
came two future Presidents Of these
half United States still. Immediately
| Haunting banrers, ragged fronts and
neighing steeds kaleideoscoped to the
scene Of the Old Guard at Waterloo.
To US Troy's front came as Achilles.
Price there found his Paris in gray.
who fired his bullet with unerring aim
into Prices heel that day. There be-
meath that cloud the giant leaned heav-
fly on us to bemoan his fate and moth
er's csrelessness.
Far visions Of that day, amid shot
and shell from friends and foemen, to
be ended only thru Little Phil and
Rienn.
OF the many battle series Of the Sixth
Corps never had we suffered the excess
OF numbers like that day. The fact Ia
that the Army Of the Shenandoah was
itoo full for O. before-breakfast feast of
Johnnies.
) with Con. Phil and Rienh at the
fore, Crook, Emory and cavalry, align
ment with the Sixth Corps came with
: magical swiftness.
forward" Tho busles rang ou,
sharp and clear. and with banners alofi
the click of saber We'd with cur leaden
shots on lines Of gray over on oul
. trysting grounds.
r I shall not tell the story told to me,
r For l was there to both feel and see
How Sheridan rode up on Risnxi
Q And turned the trick on old j. e.
l. Beyond old Manhattan, solemn, sac
q and somber, there stood guard ove
r ''Ths Daughters" twin sister, Luray
I The sentinel-seven chimneystacks OF
the Bell Grove" homestead of Chic
: Justice Marshall-seemed to pressn
9 arms TO the advance Of the Amy O
4 the Shenandoah.
eI Thus the ringing changes of old tenn
pus fugit corresponded to the numbe,
n Of Gen. Esrly's lottery ticket
IL It was 4 q. m. when Gordon essayet
to blanket that fog bank; IL g. m whe,
Little Phil arrived from Winchester. 8,
There you are-4x11x4l. The wrinkle,
front Of old Massanutton broke into
sinister smile. whilst Cedar Creek
sibiIant scuniings at the bridge span
g lining the hood was drowned in crasi
Q Of breakdown.
It was from the impedimenta thor
!. that we extracted toll and Dashed in tn,
ticket. The ole homestead-sheridan'
Q headquarters-wtth its spactous ground
: Of the impedimsnta.
: Fast fell the eventids that day. But
I ere tired natures sweet rsstorsr called
Us to the tryet again WS hurriedly in.