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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 2: Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights—Darnstown, Maryland.--Muddy Branch and Seneca Creek on the Potomac—Winter quarters at Frederick, Md. (search)
d for complications in our European relations. The results of the battle of Manassas were magnified for the transatlantic public, while lies of immense proportions were set afloat by our Northern and Southern foes, becoming huge on the regular steamer day. Thus, before we left our drenched huts on the hill-side, rumors filled the air that Siegel's entire command had laid down their arms in Missouri. It was rumored in New York that 1,700 of General Banks's command had been captured in Northern Virginia, and that General Rosecrans was surrounded at Cumberland Gap. These were lies, as I have said; but there were some uncomfortable truths to be told, -such as that recruiting was going on slowly, and that dissatisfaction with the present state of things could not be dissipated but by a military success. Kentucky declaring for the Union after the battle of Manassas was the only bright spot in a very dark horizon. Sensibly, then, we had begun to feel that the victorious armies under L
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
1. to have been his main reason for planning his attack between Front Royal and Strasburg; although it is said that others of weight were, to avoid our fortifications, and insure the issuing of Banks from them to save his communications with eastern Virginia. That Jackson got fairly upon Banks's flank without his knowledge the latter admits. On the twenty-third of May, it was discovered that the whole force of the enemy was in movement down the valley of the Shenandoah, between the Massanuttenat the foot of high hills, which tower abruptly above it on almost every side. To the east runs the Blue Ridge, over whose summits, by winding and steep pathways, roads lead through the gaps known as Chester and Manassas into the valleys of eastern Virginia. About one mile and a half north of Front Royal, in a direct line with Winchester, the two branches of the Shenandoah unite into the single stream that pours its waters into the Potomac at Harper's Ferry. The pike road from Front Royal to