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while Colonel Mason's brigade advanced on the Front Royal road. At Cedar creek a lively artillery duel transpired, during which the rebels succeeded in burning the bridge. The following morning the entire command fell back to its camp below Winchester. This was a march which tested the men's power of endurance to its utmost. The rain fell lightly but continuously during the day. For rations the men had barely one cracker each, and yet they made the entire distance—twenty-two miles—in seven hours, halting only a few minutes about noon.
