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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 11 : McDowell . (search)
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 12 : Winchester . (search)
Chapter 12: Winchester.
While General Jackson was hurrying back from Franklin, critical events were occurring at Richmond, which must be known in order to appreciate the value of his victories, and their effect upon the public mind.
The destruction of the ship Virginia by her crew, on the 11th of May, has been narrated.
This blunder left the River James open to the enemy's fleet, up to the wharves of the city.
The Confederate engineers had indeed projected an earthwork upon an admirable position, seven miles below, where the lands of a planter named Drewry overlooked a narrow reach of the stream, in a lofty bluff or precipitous hill.
But so nerveless and dilatory had been their exertions, that when the river was thus opened to the enemy, there were neither guns mounted upon the unfinished ramparts of earth, nor obstructions completed in the channel beneath.
The Legislature of Virginia had urged upon the Confederate War Department, the vast importance of defending this avenue
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 14 : the Richmond campaign. (search)