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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
f it advanced towards Pennsylvania. Shortly afterwards, Stone's division, lately organized, made a connection with Banks at Washington, by taking a position at Poolesville, on the road leading from the capital to the mouth of the Monocacy. On the left, to watch the Lower Potomac, a division, also new, was sent under General Hookef their cavalry, numbering about four hundred and fifty horses, boldly crossed the Potomac and came in turn to attack the Federal posts near Darnestown, between Poolesville and Rockville; but it was repulsed, and left about a dozen wounded behind. Two months had elapsed since the battle of Bull Run. The Confederate chiefs, in vom the suspension bridge to Alexandria. The others, under Generals Banks, Stone, Keyes, and Hooker, were stationed en echelon in the valley of the Monocacy at Poolesville, near Georgetown, and along the Lower Potomac. The regular infantry, several regiments not formed into brigades and several brigades not formed into divisions,