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When Banks was expelled from the Shenandoah Valley, in 1862, the city of Washington could only be relieved from peril by the defeat of the Confederates.
For this purpose McDowell sent a force over the Blue Ridge, to intercept them if they should retreat, and Fremont pressed on from the west towards Strasburg with the same object in view.
Perceiving the threatened danger, Jackson fled up the valley with his whole force, hotly pursued by the Nationals, and at Cross KeyCross Keys, beyond Harrisonburg, Fremont overtook Ewell, when a sharp but indecisive battle occurred.
Ewell had about 5,000 men, strongly posted.
There he was attacked, on Sunday morning, June 7, by Fremont with the force with which he had moved out of Harrisonburg.
General Schenck led the right, General Milroy the centre, and General Stahl the left.
Between the extreme was a force under Colonel Cluseret.
At eleven o'clock the conflict was general and severe, and continued several hours, Milroy and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Port republic, battle of. (search)