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                Arụ ọrụ na 1865. 

e kwụsịtụrụ ruo mgbe ọ na emechi. N'ikpeazụ na February, Lieutenant Jesse McNeil, onye bụ onye isi ụlọ ọrụ ochie nke nna ya, ya na ndị ikom iri anọ ma ọ bụ iri ise nke ụlọ ọrụ ahụ na Woodson, mere. a dash n'ime Cumberland, Maryland, n'abalị, wee weghara ma wepụta Major Generals Crook na Kelly na onye ọrụ ọrụ nke ikpeazụ, ọ bụ ezie na e nwere n'oge ahụ ọtụtụ puku ndị agha na na gburugburu Cumberland. Nna onye uwe ojii a na anụ ọkụ n'obi emewo ọtụtụ ihe egwu egwu n'oge agha, ma soro m banye Maryland, na arụ ọrụ dị mma. Mgbe Sheridan nọ na Harrisonburg n'October 1864, Captain McNeil agbawo akwa mmiri dị na Edinburg n'azụ ya, ma wakpoo ma jide onye nche na akwa mmiri dị n'Ugwu Jackson, ma n'okwu a, ọ nwetara ọnya siri ike nke o mesịrị nwụọ. . Lieutenant Baylor nke Rosser's brigade, onye ya na ụlọ ọrụ ya nọ na Jefferson County, mere otu ma ọ bụ abụọ n'ogige ndị iro n'oge oyi, na, n'otu oge, weghaara ụgbọ oloko. juru eju na akụrụngwa, n'okporo ụzọ ụgbọ oloko Baltimore na Ohio.

Na 20 nke Febrụwarị, Gen. Lee nyere iwu, na agbasa iwu m na Ngalaba South Western Virginia na East Tennessee, nke General Breckenridge nyere iwu na mbụ onye nke ikpeazụ bụ onye e mere odeakwụkwọ nke agha.

Na 27th, Sheridan malitere site na Winchester elu Ndagwurugwu na ike dị arọ, gụnyere dị ka nkwupụta nke Grant, na akụkọ ya, nke "abụọ nkewa nke ndị agha ịnyịnya, ọnụ ọgụgụ banyere 5,000 ọ bụla." A marala m maka nkwadebe maka mmegharị n'ụdị ụfọdụ, ụbọchị ole na ole gara aga, ma e zigawo ozi ahụ na telegraph nye General Lee. Ozugbo Sheridan malitere, a gwara m eziokwu ahụ site na mgbama na telegraph, ma ziga iwu ozugbo site na telegraph na Lomax, onye isi ụlọ ọrụ ya dị na Millboro, n'ọdụ ụgbọ okporo ígwè Central, kilomita iri anọ n'ebe ọdịda anyanwụ Staunton, iji kpokọta ndị ya niile. ndị agha ịnyịnya ozugbo enwere ike. Rosser bụkwa nyere ntụziaka ka ọ nakọta ndị ikom ya niile nke ọ nwere ike, ma ziga iwu site na telegraph na General Echols, na South-western Virginia, iji zipu ndị agha ya n'ụgbọ okporo ígwè na Lynchburg. Nke m