[Thursday, October 6, the Union forces began to retire down the Valley. That day Hayes’s division marched north twenty-four miles to Mount Jackson. The next day it made Woodstock, fourteen miles. Then
Saturday, October 8. — Marched eleven miles to Fisher’s Hill. Ascended Round Top Mountain, Rebel signal station. A fine view of the Valley, marred by the fires and smoke of burning stacks and barns. A bitter, windy, cold afternoon and night. Rebel cavalry harrassing our rear.
