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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
ingled with infantry and artillery; and behind him, volumes of smoke and flame arising from the town, announcing the destruction of that property which the night before might have been removed to a place of safety. At last he seemed to have been convinced of his error, for as he was hurrying along the roadway he turned to one of his staff, with a countenance grave but resolute, as we are informed, and said, It seems we have made a mistake. In a paper published in Harper's Monthly for March, 1867, Mr. Strother, of Virginia, has given his Recollections of a Campaign in Virginia. Strother, who was attached to Banks's staff in the Valley campaign, makes it appear in this paper that he derided the reports of the number of Jackson's army with such effect that it influenced Banks's conduct. Thus Strother endeavors to shield the latter, and relates the following occurrence, when he was riding away from the smoking ruins of Strasburg to the sound of the cannon of the army of Jackson: I