In 1883, Sheridan wrote: "The railroad trains had been secured in the first onset, and were taken possession of by locomotive engineers, soldiers in the command, whose delight at again getting at their former employment was so great that they produced the wildest confusion by running the trains to and fro on the track, and making such as unearthly screeching with the whistles, that I was at one time on the point of ordering them burnt; but we finally got them off, and ran them to our rear ten or fifteen miles (16 km or 24 km), to Ord and Gibbon, who with the infantry were following the cavalry. The cavalry continued the fighting nearly all that night, driving the enemy back to the vicinity of Appomattox Court-house, a distance of about four miles (6.4 km), thus giving him no repose, and covering the weakness of the attacking force." Sheridan, P. H. "The Last Days of the Rebellion" in The North American Review. Vol. 137, No. 320 (Jul., 1883), p. 13. Published by: University of Northern Iowa. Retrieved May 2, 2015. {{via=JSTOR}}
