"This was the most brillant victories of the war turned into one of the most disgraceful defeats, and all owing to the delay in pressing the enemy after we got to Middletown; as General Early said, 'The Yankees got whipped and we got scared.'"
[Make Me a Map of the Valley, The Civil War Journal of Stonewall Jackson's Topographer]
Fortunately, my ggrandfather's 43rd Tennessee of Vaughn's brigade had returned back to East Tennessee by the time of this engagement.
George Martin