March 5 — To-day a little before noon the Yankees advanced with two regiments of infantry, cavalry, and two pieces of artillery. They drove in our pickets at Fisher’s Hill in a business-like manner and tried to make a big splutter, as though they intended to make a dashing advance and capture the Valley in one fell swoop. We were ordered out immediately and moved rapidly down the pike, but before we got to Woodstock we halted for further orders and tidings from the front. The Yankees’ advance was like an old woman’s dance,— powerful at first, but soon over. They fell back again toward Winchester this afternoon. We went back again to our old camp.
Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery — George Michael Neese.
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