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d Tennessee regiments reached Harper's Ferry. On June 10th, Col. Lew Wallace, with the Eleventh Indiana, occupied Cumberland, Md., and on tl troops toward the Shenandoah valley. When Patterson ordered Lew Wallace to occupy Cumberland with the Eleventh Indiana, June 10th, he way of two guns which commanded the road by which he must approach. Wallace's advance guard crossed the bridge on a run, and came under a warm the Confederates from the house and into the mountain back of it. Wallace then pushed a flanking party up a hill to the right, but before thcause, it was supposed, of Johnston's movement, but really because Wallace, at Cumberland, had reported himself hard pressed by Hill's move oup the river. After reaching Romney, Col. A. P. Hill, resenting Wallace's raid, sent Col. J. C. Vaughn with two companies of his Tennesseef the Thirteenth Virginia to New Creek depot by the same back road Wallace used, to attack a Federal force there located. Vaughn found the e
re at once and 50 rounds of ammunition (infantry) for 100,000 men. Send General Benham with the necessary bridge train for the Rappahannock river. We can maintain ourselves at least, and, in the end, beat Lee's army, I believe. Send to Belle Plain all the infantry you can rake and scrape. With present position of the armies, 10,000 men can, be spared from the defenses of Washington, besides all the troops that have reached there since Burnside's departure. Some may also be brought from Wallace's department. We want no more wagons nor artillery. This dispatch tells the condition of things within Grant's lines and his view of the situation, on the morning of the 10th, in a way that needs no comment. At noon of the day before, May 9th, C. A. Dana, assistant secretary of war, who had joined Grant to watch events, reported to Secretary Stanton various matters that he had heard about, among others: General Wilson, with his division of cavalry, occupied Spottsylvania Court H
ity, and followed them through that town toward Monocacy Junction of the Baltimore & Ohio, on the eastern side of Monocacy river, where a Federal army, under Gen. Lew Wallace, occupied a strong position, protected by two well-constructed block-houses, one of them flanked by strong earthworks on a nearby hill, its main force occupyd there had an engagement with them, after which he fell back to the Monocacy. Rodes' division moved out on the road to Baltimore and had a brief skirmish with Wallace's discomfited and retreating army. Early's troops encamped on the battlefield, resting from their decisive, but dearly bought victory. Gen. Bradley Johnson's brnoring it in passing on to Washington, a treatment quite unlike that of Lee's ever memorable Maryland campaign; the promptness and originality of his attacks on Lew Wallace, at Monocacy, when he landed a brigade of infantry on his enemy's flank, across a deep river, by the unheard of device of having each man of a brigade of cavalr
Samuel T., major, lieutenantcol-onel; Warren, Edward T. H., lieutenant-colonel, colonel. Eleventh Cavalry battalion: Bradley, Benjamin F., major. Eleventh Cavalry regiment (formed from Seventeenth battalion and two companies Fifth Virginia Cavalry): Ball, Matt Dulaney, major, lieutenant-colonel; Funsten, Oliver R., lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Harness, William H., major; Lomax, Lunsford L., colonel; McDonald, Edward H., major. Eleventh battalion Reserves: Bosang, William H., major; Wallace, Samuel M., major, lieutenant-colonel. Eleventh Infantry regiment: Clement, Adam, major (appointment canceled); Funsten, David,. lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Garland, Samuel, Jr., colonel; Hutter, J. Risque, major; Harrison, Carter H., major; Langhorne, Maurice S., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Otey, Kirkwood, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel Twelfth Artillery battalion: Boggs, Francis J., major. Twelfth Cavalry regiment: Burks, Richard H., lieutenant-colonel; Harman, Asher