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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 4: the Valley of the Shenandoah (continued)—Return to Strasburg. (search)
himself upon his line of communications that his small force could not be surrounded by a larger one of the enemy. I besought him to apply for a change of orders to enable him to do this ; and Major Perkins, his adjutant-general, joined me in my intercessions. But Banks was immovable. therefore we did the best we could to throw up an incomplete field-work upon a hill in the middle of the town and a long line of simple breastworks in the southerly part. From the thirteenth to the twenty-third of May this not too exciting task furnished, with speculations upon the fall of Richmond, the whole staple of amusement. Again there was much grumbling and dissatisfaction among the officers of the Second Regiment; and here it culminated in a letter from them to the Secretary of War asking to be transferred to a more active field. A reply to this letter, received after Jackson had driven our regiment out of the valley, declared that the exigencies of the service required thewriters to re
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
ected Jackson's presence. Cooke's Life of Jackson, p. 141. On the twenty-third of May Jackson's army, with three regiments of cavalry, Cavalry regiments ofirly upon Banks's flank without his knowledge the latter admits. On the twenty-third of May, it was discovered that the whole force of the enemy was in movement dowout half a mile from the town in a lovely valley. On the morning of the twenty-third of May there was no token of the impending storm. Trees of richest verdure werithout the slightest warning, Jackson's advance was upon them. On the twenty-third of May, at night, we left the enemy under Ewell in bivouac on the road that runenly, when Banks directed me to add to it a battery. Strasburg, 5.45 P. M., 23d May. Colonel Gordon, Commanding Brigade, etc.: Sir,--You will direct a section -orderly than the sound of Kenly's artillery; for thus it was that the night of May 23 left us without disturbance, and that the hours of the 24th were not cut short
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
as almost surrounding Winchester. The entire crest for three parts of this vast circumference was covered with the enemy. Now, for the first time, I saw General Banks, making a feeble effort to arrest the troops, and uttering some words about promised reinforcements. Turning his eyes backward, I think there was no doubt in his own mind that the enemy had developed his force to him, -thus reversing the necessity with which General Banks had met my most urgent appeals on the night of the 23d of May. I must develop the force of the enemy. General Banks had made no provision for a retreat, evidently believing that with his inferior force he should comply with his telegram to the War Department, sent the day before, and return to Strasburg. Such a telegram was in the hands of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, and an explanation asked of a witness who was attempting to show that Banks knew before he left Strasburg the number of Jackson's forces. When Banks in his official rep