Fremont on the west at last finding the line of riflemen before him withdrawn, pushed forward, and saw the long columns of the Southern army with their wagons moving steadily toward the south.

His cavalry attacking were driven off and the Southern division went on.
Harry with the retreating division wondered at these movements and admired their skill.

Jackson's army, encumbered as it was with prisoners and stores, was passing directly between the armies of Fremont and Shields, covering its flanks with clouds of skirmishers and cavalry that beat off every attack of the hostile vanguards, and that kept the two Northern armies from getting into touch.
Jackson had not stopped at Winchester.

He had left that town once more to the enemy and was still drawing back toward the wider division of the valley west of the Massanuttons.

The great mind was working very fast now.