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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 2 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
re Mountain, and from its plateau looked down on the village of MacDowell and Milroy's camps in the valley of the Bull Pasture. Though Jackson could have reached the village and the camps with artillery from this site, Called Litlington's Hill. he resisted the temptation. The way was too rough and precipitous for the use of horses, and the possibility of withdrawal in a fight problematical. He had other plans and better. A circuitous road, practicable for artillery, to the right of Hull's Hill (an elevation northeast of the turnpike), re-entering the turnpike five miles west of MacDowell, had been discovered by Jackson's engineers. It was a grand opportunity to play his favorite flanking game, and that night Jackson determined to run the hazard of it. But in the mean time Schenck had left Franklin. Making thirty-four miles in twenty-three hours, he had reached Milroy at 10 A. M. of the 8th, with 1,300 infantry, one battery, and 250 cavalry. Jackson's reconnoissance on Li