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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
om the eastward to Harper's Ferry and from the westward to Hancock, for the use of the Federal army, a gap 40 miles long beint against Bath, if successful, would disperse the enemy at Hancock, destroy communication between General Banks on the east a ordered an immediate pursuit, his main body moving toward Hancock and driving the rear of the enemy across the Potomac; Gilhh line. Jackson bivouacked with his main force opposite Hancock on the night of the 4th. The next morning, through Coloneteries upon it. General Lander, who had assumed command at Hancock, refused to surrender and prepared to resist until large r to construct a bridge across the Potomac, two miles above Hancock, that he might cross the river and fall on Lander's flank. as he could not carry away, Jackson left the vicinity of Hancock, on the morning of the 7th, and marched in the direction oson's creek, where he concentrated the Federal troops from Hancock and Cumberland with those from Romney and Springfield.
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 28: (search)
emanding a named sum of money as an indemnity for the wanton burning of the house of Hon. A. R. Boteler, near Martinsburg, and that of Governor Letcher, by Hunter, in Lexington; declaring, at the same time, that if the indemnity were not paid, he would burn the town in retaliation and to put a stop to such vandalism. Payment was not made, and the town was given over to the flames. The same day McCausland marched to McConnellsburg for the night, and on the 31st fell back to the Potomac, at Hancock, then followed the National road to Cumberland, August 1st, and thence down that river to Old Town, where he crossed into Virginia and encamped that night at Springfield. The next day he marched up the South branch of the Potomac to Romney, where he spent the 3d; then on the 4th he crossed over to New Creek, then back to Burlington and on to Moorefield on the 6th, where he was attacked and surprised in his camp by Averell's cavalry that had been following him, and driven out with loss and