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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of New Market, Va., May 15th, 1864. (search)
ent's notice. A similar notification was sent to General Francis H. Smith, Commandant of the Virginia Military Institute attime, almost fatal to the colleges and the institutes. Colonel Smith, however, resolved to keep open his school. He reducedand delay their return as long as possible. I summoned Colonel Smith, of the 62d, to my headquarters, and informed him confia Romney across the Potomac and into Maryland. Leaving Colonel Smith in command at Woodstock, it was given out that I was ablate in the night, reached Mount Jackson, where I found Colonel Smith, who, in the exercise of a sound discretion, had fallented and rode there to meet and confer with him, leaving Colonel Smith of the 62d in command during my absence. The general c we were at table a courier arrived with a message from Colonel Smith to me that Sigel's cavalry, 2500 strong, had reached Rung back skirmishing, but was so vigorously pressed that he, Smith, had formed line of battle just west of the town to cover t