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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Jackson at Harper's Ferry in 1861. (search)
waited till after dark, and then set out for Winchester behind a good team. Brigadier-General Harmantry companies took up the line of march for Winchester. I now had to procure horses for my guns. e of them agreed to hire us horses as far as Winchester, eighteen miles, while others refused. The infantry down the Valley Turnpike, reaching Winchester just at nightfall. The people generally rec yet been aroused. General Harper was at Winchester, and had sent forward his infantry by rail td was escorted to a train about to leave for Winchester. He was a fine-looking old soldier, and as untenable, withdrew the Confederate army to Winchester. This was a disastrous blow to the pomp and between those points, and these he ran up to Winchester, thirty-two miles on the branch road, where une Johnston withdrew from Harper's Ferry to Winchester, he kept Jackson at the front along the Balteaseless, and General Johnston felt sure, at Winchester, of ample warning of any aggressive movement
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., McDowell's advance to Bull Run. (search)
l Scott addressed a dispatch to McDowell, saying: It is known that a strong reinforcement left Winchester on the afternoon of the 18th, which you will also have to beat. Four new regiments will leavesary, When this dispatch was penned, McDowell was fighting the strong reinforcement which left Winchester on the 18th. General Scott's report that Beauregard had been reinforced, the information that an to expire on the 24th, was at Charlestown, and Johnston, with about the same number, was at Winchester. On that day General Scott telegraphed Patterson, McDowell's first day's work has driven the in accordance with the wishes of the General-in-Chief, in keeping General Johnston's force at Winchester. At the very hour that Patterson was writing this dispatch Johnston's advance was leaving WinWinchester. On the 18th Johnston telegraphed to Richmond that Patterson's at Charlestown, and said: Unless he prevents it, we shall move toward General Beauregard to-day. He moved accordingly, and the
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Incidents of the first Bull Run. (search)
Incidents of the first Bull Run. John D. Imboden, Brigadier-General, C. S. A. From the day of his arrival at Winchester [see page 124], General Johnston was ceaseless in his labors to improve the efficiency of his little army, in which he was g we were deflected from our direct line of march, and held in line of battle a day at Bunker Hill, a few miles north of Winchester, to receive an expected assault from General Patterson, who had crossed the Potomac, but who went back without attackine till the 5th, when General Patterson, after a slight brush with Jackson, again recrossed the Potomac. We returned to Winchester, and to our arduous drilling. After midnight of July 17th, General Bee, my brigade commander, sent for me to go witroad or by Warrenton. In all the arrangements exercise your discretion. On the next day, the 18th of July, we left Winchester for Manassas. It was late in the afternoon before my battery took up the line of march — as I now recollect, with the
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Responsibilities of the first Bull Run. (search)
stly to insist on being allowed to retire to a position nearer to Winchester. Harper's Ferry is 22 miles east of the route into the Shenandeet General McClellan's troops, believed by intelligent people of Winchester to be approaching from the west. On page 345 Mr. Davis says itelegram was sent by the adjutant-general to General Johnston, Winchester, Va.: General Beauregard is attacked. To strike the enemy a decisi. The sick were, therefore, properly and quickly provided for in Winchester. I was the only judge of the practicable ; and if practicable re arrive at Manassas in time. They were therefore provided for in Winchester ; and substituted this: Our sick, nearly seventeen hundred in number, were provided for in Winchester. Being ordered to send the sick to Culpeper as well as to move to Manassas, it was necessary to account of the Rappahannock. On the 11-12th Stonewall Jackson evacuated Winchester and fell back to Strasburg.-editors. On the 20th of February,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Pea Ridge campaign. (search)
of the Indian forces. From a photograph. who holds the interior lines or inside track, will always be great, unless the enemy's troops are inferior in quality, or otherwise at a disadvantage. During the war there was not, I believe, a single case where an army tried such a bagging process and succeeded in it, except in the attack of posts and intrenched positions, as, for instance, at Harper's Ferry during the advance of Lee into Maryland in September, 1862, and with partial success at Winchester, June 15th, 1863. There are instances where flanking manoeuvres of great detachments from the main army have been successful, but more through non-interference with: them than for other reasons. Jackson's detour into the rear of the Army of Virginia, in August, 1862, was a strategical surprise, that was only successfully executed because it was not discovered in time, or rather because, when discovered, it was not properly met. The flanking movement and attack by Jackson, against the Ele
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Holding Kentucky for the Union. (search)
ng our advantage an overmatch for his; and that this can only be done by menacing him with superior forces at different points at the same time, so that we can safely attack one or both if he makes no change; and if he weakens one to strengthen the other, forbear to attack the strengthened one, but seize and hold the weakened one, gaining so much. To illustrate: Suppose last summer, when Winchester ran away to reinforce Manassas, we had forborne to attack Manassas, but had seized and held Winchester. I mention this to illustrate, and not to criticise. I did not lose confidence in McDowell, and I think less harshly of Patterson than some others seem to. In application of the general rule I am suggesting, every particular case will have its modifying circumstances, among which the most constantly present and most difficult to meet will be the want of perfect knowledge of the enemy's movements. This had its part in the Bull Run case; but worse in that case was the expiration of the te