Excerpt from Last Hours of Sheridan's Cavalry: A Reprint of War Memoranda

While there was in one army that desperate valor which broke through the Union lines at dawn on the 25th of March, and captured Fort Steadman, there was with the other a calm, heroic determination, that conscious ness of right and might which the same mom ing retook that stronghold from the enemy and sent him whirling beyond his own en trenchments. The Rebel army were recover ing from the shock, and before the Union troops had appreciated the extent of this hand some battle and victory, won by the Ninth corps alone, the lieutenant-general had opened that short, sharp, and decisive campaign which, in eleven days, resulted not only in the capture of Petersburg and Richmond, but of the veteran host which upheld the rebellion, and with which the brave old Army of the Potomac had waged three years of bloody combat.

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