north bank of Cedar Creek. Custer gained better results, however, on

the Back road, with his usual dash driving the enemy's cavalry away

from his front, Merritt's division then joining him and remaining on

The day's events pointing to a probability that the enemy intended to

resume the offensive, to anticipate such a contingency I ordered the

Sixth Corps to return from its march toward Ashby's Gap. It reached

me by noon of the 14th, and went into position to the right and rear

of the Nineteenth Corps, which held a line along the north bank of