The Battle of Fisher's Hill: Breaking the Shenandoah Valley's Gibraltar by Jonathan A. Noyalas

Author:Jonathan A. Noyalas [Noyalas, Jonathan A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: history, Military, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877), State & Local, General, South (AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV)
ISBN: 9781625846501
Google: tOp2CQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-06-18T23:38:30.626519+00:00

Modern-day view of the remnant of the original Valley Pike looking south toward Fisher’s Hill. Troops from Colonel Edward Molineux’s command passed through this area during their advance. Photograph by author.

Sheridan’s behavior bothered Molineux to such an extent that, the day after the battle, he went to General Emory and said he wished to resign his commission so that he could “fight Sheridan [in] a duel for insulting” him. Emory intervened on Molineux’s behalf and informed Sheridan: “You have insulted one of the best men in my corps. If I had told him to go to hell, he’d have gone.” Moved by Emory’s comments, Sheridan offered Molineux a public apology. Molineux remembered of Sheridan’s apology: “‘I had no intention of insulting you. I apologize.’ Then he called the company on guard and his staff officers around him and told me he wished to apologize to me for what he had said.” In Molineux’s estimation, Sheridan’s public apology was “the bravest thing Sheridan ever did.”214

In retrospect, the momentary halt of Grover’s division against the eastern flank of Early’s line mattered little. By the time Emory’s troops reached the base of Fisher’s Hill and the stone bridge that carried the Valley Pike across Tumbling Run, Gordon’s troops and the Confederate artillery had ceased firing and taken to their heels in retreat, as troops from Crook’s corps had swept in behind Gordon’s position. As infantry from Emory’s corps peered to the top of Fisher’s Hill, “those unattainable heights,” they spied a color-bearer from one of Crook’s regiments. A veteran of the Fourteenth New Hampshire, one of Grover’s regiments, recalled that one of Crook’s veterans was “waving that resplendent banner with thirty-four stars upon it, signaling to a triumphant army, that, while it was marching up to death in front, victory had been won in the rear.”215

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