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g from Front Royal to Strasburgh, Middletown, Newtown, and Winchester, and ascertain the force, poso effect a junction with the main column. At Newtown, however, he found Col. Gordon holding the enby an increased force near the bridge between Newtown and Kernstown, Col. Gordon was directed to sed hold the enemy in check. They found him at Newtown with a strong force of infantry, artillery anirst brigade of your division, to move toward Newtown, en route for Winchester, to check an approacll also under my command. Upon arriving near Newtown, I found some confusion in the train, and sawk. Gen. Hatch was safe, the enemy driven from Newtown, all our train in advance of the centre proteo and through Middletown, and when we reached Newtown, eight miles from Winchester, numbers of the Strasburgh, and about a mile and a half above Newtown. Reports then came that the enemy, advancing Williams) as flankers. On their return to Newtown, knapsacks had been left in a field to reliev[1 more...]
rs at Front Royal. Banks, who was at Strasburgh when he heard of our doings, cut stick and broke for Winchester in hot haste; but we cut his force in twain at Middletown, sending Taylor's brigade (Ewell's division) after the Strasburgh wing, who captured many of them and demoralized the rest, and we hurried on swiftly after Banks down the valley. Every few hundred yards we passed one of his wagons, left upset, or broken, or teamless, full of baggage, stores, etc., till just this side of Newtown, after checking us awhile with artillery, he burned up thirty of the trains, and then the rout and flight became beautiful and exciting beyond degree. Prisoners were brought back by scores and hundreds, and then you ought to have heard the boys yell and make the old woods ring with uproarious joy. Three miles beyond Winchester yesterday morning, the enemy made a stand, and the fight began about six o'clock A. M.; in two hours we drove him pell-mell, helter-skelter off the field, and throug