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Jackson County (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. Turning now to Jackson's operations in the valley during the few days that intervened before he again confronted us at Front Royal, Strasburg, and Winchester, we shall find that this indefatigable captain, while resting for a few days in Elk Run Valley at the foot of Swift Run Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains, meditated an attack upon us at New Market or at Harrisonburg. See Jackson's letter to Lee, April 23, given in substance in Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861-1862. By William Allan, Lieutenant-Colonel, etc., A. N. V. Jackson's army at this time numbered six thousand. But this was not enough for his purposes; he wanted an addition of Ewell's division and five thousand men from the force covering Fredericksburg. On the twenty-eighth of April he applied to Lee for a command sufficiently large to enable him to march out and attack Banks. On the 29th Lee replied that the
Headquarters (Washington, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
hstanding all my solicitations and entreaties, Banks persistently refused to move, ever repeating, I must develop the force of the enemy. No argument, no reply to my arguments, could suppress this monotonous utterance. Banks seemed brooding over thoughts he did not reveal; he was spiritless and dejected. His mood depressed me, and I hastened to return to my command. At about ten o'clock at night I received a note containing instructions sent to Colonel Ruger of the Third Wisconsin, Headquarters, 9.45 P. M. Colonel Gordon: Sr,--I sent a note about an hour ago to Colonel Ruger to halt. If at or beyond Buckton, to fall back, if necessary, to a position where he would not run any risk of being cut off. I send the two wagons back. Yours, etc., D. S. Perkins, Major, etc. from which I inferred that possibly Banks had obtained further information, and that now I might press my views with better success. First I called upon Major Perkins, the chief of General Banks's staff. F
Lewiston, Me. (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
anks appeared to be quietly at rest. In the afternoon of the thirtieth of April Jackson left his camp: it was soon occupied by Ewell. Straight onward to Port Republic, on the eastern side of the Shenandoah River, Jackson directed his march. The day was rainy,--indeed for the past ten days heavy rains had fallen. Do their best, the troops made but five miles; on the next they made but five; the next, the second of May, the struggle with the mud continued. By nightfall Jackson had passed Lewiston to a bivouac between that point and Brown's Gap. On the 3d, by this gap and Whitehall, he pressed onward towards Mechum's River station on the Virginia Central Railroad, and at night encamped on the hills and meadows around the station, east of the Blue Ridge. On the 4th the artillery and trains took the road by Rockfish Gap to Staunton: the troops went by rail. On Sunday, the 5th, Jackson reached Staunton; the next day his troops arrived. So secretly had he moved that the people of the
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
r 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 Winchester crosses both Forks of the river,--the South Fork at a distance of one mile and a quarter from the town, the North Fork about one mile further on. At the two Forks there were two bridges standing. one instance, being all who heard his voice, --all of which was reported as a fact by a gentleman of character and veracity. Cooke's Life of Jackson, p. 146. It is as true as that Banks, after he retreated to Winchester, took the cars for Harper's Ferry, shedding tears, and declaring that he had been sacrificed by his Government, which is solemnly written in Southern history. Ibid. Notwithstanding General Jackson in his report says that the turnpike, which had just before teemed with
Stanardsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
burg. On the twenty-eighth of April he applied to Lee for a command sufficiently large to enable him to march out and attack Banks. On the 29th Lee replied that the Federal force at Fredericksburg was too large to admit of any diminution of his own, but suggested that he could have General Edward Johnson's command, whose last return showed 3,500 men (and who was then near where the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike crosses the Shenandoah Mountain), and Ewell, who was in the vicinity of Stanardsville with eight thousand men; and expressed the opinion that a decisive and successful blow at Banks's column would be fraught with the happiest results. See Taylor's Four years with General Lee, p. 38. See also Narrative of Military Operations directed during the late War between the States. By Joseph E. Johnston, General C. S. A., 1874, p. 110. But Jackson hesitated. Milroy, who was at MacDowell (about thirty miles from Staunton), had pushed his advance over the Shenandoah Mountain to
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
addition of Ewell's division and five thousand men from the force covering Fredericksburg. On the twenty-eighth of April he applied to Lee for a command sufficientlch out and attack Banks. On the 29th Lee replied that the Federal force at Fredericksburg was too large to admit of any diminution of his own, but suggested that he vision, which was still at Elk Run watching Banks; and that an emergency at Fredericksburg or Richmond might cause the loss of Ewell, and interfere with his cherishedtil the fifth of May, when, as narrated, Shields's division marched towards Fredericksburg to join General McDowell at that place. On the fourteenth of May Generalte Jackson that it was very desirable to prevent Banks from going either to Fredericksburg or to the peninsula, and that a successful blow struck would delay if it dior-General Smith was to have a mixed force, equal to a brigade, in front of Fredericksburg. See Narative of Military Operations directed during the late War between
Hampton (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
er Colonel Broadhead there was part of the 1st Michigan; under General Hatch, part of 1st Vermont, part of 5th New York, 5 companies 1st Maryland, 5 companies 8th New York,total 1,500. In artillery: Best's Battery, 6 guns; Cothran's Battery, 6; Hampton's Battery, 4,--total 16 guns and 250 men. See Banks's Report, Rebellion Record, vol. v.--a Confederate army against which, with the whole force Banks had ever had in the valley, we might not have coped; a combined army from which McClellan fearcolumn, fell back to Strasburg. The whole command under General Hatch at this time consisted of the Fifth New York cavalry, Colonel De Forrest; First Vermont, Colonel Tompkins; five Companies of the First Maine, Lieutenant-Colonel Douty. The Hampton Battery and one section of Best's Battery, half of the First Maine and two Companies of the First Vermont, had accompanied the column, and at Middletown were sent towards Front Royal to observe Jackson. The subsequent history of this command
Keezletown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
g of the eighteenth of May General Jackson was at Mount Crawford, Battle-fields of the South (Ashton's Letter), p. 324. eight miles from Harrisonburg on the Staunton pike. He then knew that Banks had fallen back to Strasburg: we had been there since the 13th. At Mossy Creek, Ewell conferred in person with Jackson. Then and there a vigorous campaign against Banks was planned. One of Ewell's brigades, the largest of his command (Taylor's), was to march from Elk Run Valley, by way of Keezletown, and unite with Jackson in the valley turnpike, a few miles south of New Market, while the remainder of his command followed the South Fork of the Shenandoah to Luray. On the afternoon of the 18th Ewell returned to direct the course of his troops.3 It was then from New Market that Jackson's campaign against Banks commenced; from this point that a united Major-General Ewell was left with his division and a regiment of cavalry in observation on the upper Rappahannock. General Jackso
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
e at that place. On the afternoon of the 7th Jackson's army was seen on the west side of the Shenaes west of MacDowell, had been discovered by Jackson's engineers. It was a grand opportunity to p,300 infantry, one battery, and 250 cavalry. Jackson's reconnoissance on Litlington's Hill (the opwater. For many facts in this narration of Jackson's movements. on MacDowell, I am indebted to ncluding the cavalry) about 8,000,--increased Jackson's effective force to about 17,000 men, with 1ckson, p. 141. On the twenty-third of May Jackson's army, with three regiments of cavalry, Cas seen no more. And thus it was that all of Jackson's infantry toiled over the hills through the at had captured Kenly. At dawn on the 24th Jackson's column was in motion. Cooke's Life of Jaster, or at any intermediate point. Before Jackson's main body was fairly in motion, General Steeached a position two miles from the town, on Jackson's right, and that his pickets were yet one mi[39 more...]
Buckton (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
the little band to the west towards Strasburg. Ashby directed his march as far to the west as Buckton, where a bridge and some fortifications were occupied by the two companies from my brigade; Flournoy's movements were made between Buckton and Front Royal. This force quickly threw themselves into the depot building and Mr. Jenkins's house and stable, and from this cover maintained a very svalry, who had been fighting and capturing prisoners all along the railroad from Front Royal to Buckton, came upon the stricken band. This cavalry force appeared on the Winchester road, and above Kerk. While these scenes were transpiring, Ashby had attacked and dispersed the two companies at Buckton, and had torn up the railroad track. Then night came, and all around the Shenandoah, at Front onel Gordon: Sr,--I sent a note about an hour ago to Colonel Ruger to halt. If at or beyond Buckton, to fall back, if necessary, to a position where he would not run any risk of being cut off. I
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