By Joseph W. McKinney
the 1st day’s battling observed dismounted Yankees and Rebels engaged at shut diversity in dense wooded area. through day’s finish, Hampton had withdrawn to the west. Advancing the following morning, Sheridan chanced on Hampton dug in in the back of rapidly outfitted fortifications and introduced seven dismounted attacks, every one repulsed with heavy casualties. As darkness fell, the Confederates counterattacked, riding the Union forces from the field.
Sheridan begun his withdrawal that evening, a trial for his males, the Union wounded and accomplice prisoners introduced off the sphere and the loads of starved and exhausted horses that marked his retreat, killed to avoid their falling into accomplice hands.
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