Two generations of schoolboys in the Northern States have learned the
lines beginning, "Up from the south at break of day." This picture
represents Sheridan in 1864, wearing the same hat that he waved to rally
his soldiers on that famous ride from "Winchester, twenty miles away." As
he reined up his panting horse on the turnpike at Cedar Creek, he received
salutes from two future Presidents of the United States. The position on
the left of the road was held by Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, who had
succeeded, after the rout of the Eighth Corps in the darkness of the early
morning, in rallying some fighting groups of his own brigade; while on the
right stood Major William McKinley, gallantly commanding the remnant of
his fighting regiment--the Twenty-third Ohio.