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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 12 : General George B. McClellan and the organization of the army of the Potomac (search)
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 14 : the Peninsular campaign begun; Yorktown (search)
Chapter 14: the Peninsular campaign begun; Yorktown
In order to leave McClellan's army free to act General Banks was to come from West Virginia and command a fifth corps with which to cover Washington.
He was to give up Sedgwick's fine division to complete Sumner's corps.
While matters were being planned and were not yet half executed, Stonewall Jackson, always our marplot, struck one of Banks's divisions near Winchester.
Fortunately, General Shields, the division commander, with his arm shattered in the beginning of the battle, succeeded in holding Jackson at bay, and after a terrific conflict forced him up the Shenandoah Valley.
But the battle itself served to call back to West Virginia General A. S. Williams's division, which belonged to Banks and was already en route to Manassas with orders to relieve our troops, that we might go back to Alexandria and follow our comrades via the Chesapeake to the Virginia Peninsula.
Banks himself with his Fifth Corps never did succee
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 17 : Second battle of Bull Bun (search)