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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 1 (search)
otomac at Williamsport, and the railroad at Martinsburg, at least twenty miles west of this garrisoamsport (where it crosses the Potomac), and Martinsburg. These roads are met at Winchester by the m Chambersburg lay through Williamsport and Martinsburg — a long day's march to the west; and the obersburg, and therefore by Williamsport and Martinsburg, a route beyond the control of Harper's Ferhe country to Bunker's Hill, midway between Martinsburg and Win. chester, to prevent the junction as sent with his brigade to the vicinity of Martinsburg to support the cavalry. He was instructed ing, at Darksville, six or seven miles from Martinsburg, soon after daybreak. We bivouacked there superior numbers in a town so defensible as Martinsburg, with its solid buildings and inclosures oftwo thousand, the estimate of the people of Martinsburg at the time. We overrated each other's strted that the Federal army had advanced from Martinsburg to Bunker's Hill. It remained there on the[2 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 4 (search)
our brigades of infantry and a regiment of cavalry, to drive the Federal troops, then in the northern part of his district, across the Potomac. Their number being inconsiderable, he succeeded in ten days, without serious fighting. His men suffered very much, however, from cold, and hard marches. In the distribution of the troops of the district, agreed upon by General Jackson and myself, General Loring's three brigades were stationed near Romney, General Meem's brigade of militia at Martinsburg, General Carson's at Bath, and the militia regiments of Colonels Monroe, McDonald, Harness, and Johnson, occupied Moorfield, and different points on a curved line thence, in advance of Romney, to Bath. A week or two after these dispositions were completed, General Jackson received the following order from Mr. Benjamin, acting Secretary of War: Our news indicates that a movement is being made to cut off General Loring's command. Order him back to Winchester immediately. After I had