The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, volume I., Part 3
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The order requiring an escort for thewagons to-night has been rescinded. "A. A. HUMPHREYS, "Major-General, Chief-of-Staff. " On the morning of the 6th Custer's and Devin's brigades had beenseverely engaged at the Furnaces before I received the above note. They had been most successful in repulsing the enemy's attacks, however, and I felt that the line taken up could be held; but thedespatch from General Humphreys was alarming, so I drew all thecavalry close in toward Chancellorsville. It was fo...und later thatHancock's left had not been turned, and the points thus abandoned hadto be regained at a heavy cost in killed and wounded, to both thecavalry and the infantry. On the 7th of May, under directions from headquarters, Army of thePotomac, the trains were put in motion to go into park at PineyBranch Church, in anticipation of the movement that was about to bemade for the possession of Spottsylvania Court House. I feltconfident that the order to move the trains there had been givenwithout a full understanding of the situation, for Piney BranchChurch was now held by the enemy, a condition which had resulted fromthe order withdrawing the cavalry on account of the supposed disasterto Hancock's left the day before; but I thought the best way toremedy matters was to hold the trains in the vicinity of Aldrich'still the ground on which it was intended to park them should beregained.
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