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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 25 1 Browse Search
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On the 21st of November, Gen. H. R. Jackson evacuated Camp Bartow and retired to the summit of Alleghany mountain, leaving only cavalry at Camp Bartow to scout the enemy's front. On the 22d, from his camp on the mountain, General Jackson ordered Col. Edward Johnson, of the Twelfth Georgia, to take command of the garrison on the summit of the mountain, to consist of the Twelfth Georgia, the Thirty-first, Fifty-second and Twenty-fifth Virginia regiments and the Ninth Virginia battalion, Flournoy's company of Virginia cavalry, and Anderson's and Miller's Virginia batteries, and at once entering upon the duties of his command, take the necessary steps to insure the safety and comfort of his troops. The Forty-fourth Virginia and a section of Rice's battery, located on the road to Monterey, were made part of his command. Previous to that time, on the 18th of October, General Jackson had ordered the construction of huts on the top of Alleghany mountain within lines of fortification, l
Friday morning, May 23d, the cavalry of Ashby and Flournoy, which had preceded the army, crossed the South Fo road, where it divided into two bodies, one under Flournoy proceeding down between the rivers to capture the t from his command, and discovering the advance of Flournoy's Confederate cavalry between the rivers that woulce with the artillery that he had brought off, but Flournoy's cavalry soon dashed through the river, after a f hurried toward Winchester. With invincible ardor Flournoy pressed after him with his four companies of cavalinspired by his presence and enthusiastic bearing, Flournoy did not hesitate to attack the enemy's artillery ahad become thoroughly demoralized and so magnified Flournoy's troopers into an army of horsemen, when they dasforced by the coming of two more of his companies, Flournoy pushed the pursuit to within four miles of Winchesester, near the scene of the last conflict between Flournoy and Kenly, where a country road leaves the Front R
enant-colonel. Fifth Infantry regiment State Line: Edmundson, David, lieutenant-colonel; Preston, C. H., major; Preston, Robert T., colonel. Sixth Cavalry regiment: Cabell, J. Grattan, major, lieutenantcol-onel; Field, Charles W., colonel; Flournoy, Thomas S., major, colonel; Flournoy, Cabell E., major; Green, John Shac., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Grimsley, Daniel A., major; Harrison, Julien, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Richards, Daniel T., lieutenant-colonel. Sixth Infantry Flournoy, Cabell E., major; Green, John Shac., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Grimsley, Daniel A., major; Harrison, Julien, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Richards, Daniel T., lieutenant-colonel. Sixth Infantry battalion: Wilson, John P., major. Sixth Infantry battalion Local Defense Troops (Tredegar battalion): Tanner, William E., major. Sixth battalion Reserves (also called Sixteenth): Smith, John H. A., major; Smith, Robert, lieutenant-colonel. Sixth Infantry regiment: Corprew, Thomas J., lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Lundy, William T., major, lieutenant-colonel; Mahone, William, colonel; Rogers, George T., major, colonel; Taylor, Robert B., major; Williamson, Henry W., lieutenant-colonel
epossess Mechanicsville, exercising brigade command in the action. In June, Jackson having concluded his Valley campaign, Robertson was promoted brigadier-general and sent to Mount Jackson to take command of Ashby's cavalry, and protect that region. From Ashby's command was organized the Seventh cavalry regiment, Col. W. E. Jones; the Twelfth regiment, Col. A. W. Harman; and the Seventeenth battalion (later the Eleventh regiment), Maj. O. R. Funsten. These, with the Sixth regiment, Col. P. S. Flournoy, and the Second regiment, Col. T. T. Munford (which had accompanied Jackson), constituted Col. Robertson's brigade when he rejoined Stuart on the Rapidan river in August. Very soon afterward he participated in the victory at Brandy Station, and was congratulated by Stuart upon the superior discipline and stability of the command he had organized. During the battle of Groveton he was in command on the right holding back Porter, and on the 30th of August, made a handsome cavalry fight