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The Battlefield • Dawn • 10 a.m. • Attack • Counterattack • Early p.m. • Late p.m. • Dusk

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For five hours Ramseur’s Division skirmished with the Union infantry as it exited Berryville Canyon and formed on both sides of the road, its artillery dueling with arriving Union guns. By ten o’clock both Rodes’ and Ramseur’s Divisions had arrived from the north, leaving the Valley Pike to march across the fields to form up south of Hackwood House, which dated from the Revolutionary War. As the Confederate line formed, Early withdrew Ramseur a short distance west.

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By this time two of Sheridan’s corps had made it up though Berryville Canyon. Wright’s Sixth Corps, with the divisions of Ricketts, Getty and Russell, and Emory’s Nineteenth Corps, with the divisions of Grover and Dwight, formed stretching south from the First Woods, with Grover, Ricketts and Getty in line of battle and Dwight and Russell in reserve. Sheridan’s third corps, Crook’s, was still making its way up Berryville Canyon from the Opequon.

The cavalry of both armies took up position on the flanks. Payne’s and Wickham’s Confederate cavalry brigades from covered Breathed’s horse artillery, who took up a position north of Red Bud Run. Johnson’s and Lomax’s cavalry brigades held off Wilson’s Union troopers on the south flank, while McCausland’s and Smith’s cavalry brigades, reinforced by Wharton’s small infantry division, were left at Stephenson’s Depot to contend with Merritt’s and Averell’s (off the map to the north) Union cavalry divisions.