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uld not have expressed more joy, although the judgment hereafter, if we did not sustain ourselves, no doubt caused some repression of feeling. The Second Regiment, with the rest of our brigade, bivouacked on Monday night, the tenth of March, in the woods near Berryville. With straw from farmers' stacks, we added to the warmth of our single blanket; with rails from farmers' fences, we managed to moderate an atmosphere that was near the freezing-point. Bright and early in the morning of the 11th, our cavalry, moving forward for Winchester, encountered the enemy's cavalry, made prisoners of three, and chased the rest to within three or four miles of the town itself. General Gorman now began to make arrangements for an armed reconnoissance, in force, towards Winchester. This he wished me to command, but somehow or other the day passed and nothing was done. We were awaiting the arrival of General Banks. I rode around the town, out on the Winchester road, and saw that ample arrange
13th (search for this): chapter 6
cracked against the axles, and on lumbered the baggage-wagons and the camp-followers,--still onward, tramp, tramp, for the severe fight at Winchester, though not a sound of fighting we heard. In the darkness all was quiet, save the subdued noise of our own senseless march. At about twelve o'clock at night, two or three miles from the peaceable town, I lay down in the woods again, to bivouac in cold and in hunger, with a disgust, deep and undefinable, to awake, however, on the morning of the 13th, with all discomforts vanished, and our fatigues forgotten The feelings that agitated General Jackson, as our columns approached the town from the north and east, have, since his death, been given to the world. This noted commander was moved with doubts and perplexities. Now he was ready to hazard everything to make good his promise to the people of Winchester that the Yankees should not enter their town; and then, more prudent considerations prevailing, he would resolve to retire, only
19th (search for this): chapter 6
llan, but not so near that he might be compelled to fight. Under these instructions, when Banks, approaching with a Federal force greatly superior to his own, was within four miles of Winchester, Jackson, on March 12, fell slowly back to Strasburg, eighteen miles, in two days, remaining there undisturbed until the 16th, when, finding that the Federal army was again advancing, he fell back to Mount Jackson, twentyfour miles, his adversary halting at Strasburg. I received these reports on the 19th, and suggested that his distance was too great from the Federal army for objects in view. On the 21st he acknowledged this, and said that he was about to move his headquarters to Woodstock, twelve miles from the enemy's camp. At about half-past 6 A. M., on the 23d, at Strasburg, he expressed a hope that he should be near Winchester that afternoon; and at ten o'clock that night he wrote in his brief manner that he attacked the Federal army at four P. M., and was repulsed by it at dark. He g
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aching with a Federal force greatly superior to his own, was within four miles of Winchester, Jackson, on March 12, fell slowly back to Strasburg, eighteen miles, in two days, remaining there undisturbed until the 16th, when, finding that the Federal army was again advancing, he fell back to Mount Jackson, twentyfour miles, his adversary halting at Strasburg. I received these reports on the 19th, and suggested that his distance was too great from the Federal army for objects in view. On the 21st he acknowledged this, and said that he was about to move his headquarters to Woodstock, twelve miles from the enemy's camp. At about half-past 6 A. M., on the 23d, at Strasburg, he expressed a hope that he should be near Winchester that afternoon; and at ten o'clock that night he wrote in his brief manner that he attacked the Federal army at four P. M., and was repulsed by it at dark. He gave his force as three thousand and eighty-seven infantry, two hundred and ninety cavalry, and twenty-s
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he preceding two days began on the very day that we left Winchester for Centreville. On that day the enemy under command of Stonewall Jackson showed himself one mile south of Winchester, in the edge of woods that skirt the town. This was on the 22d. Banks was still in Winchester, and so was the second division of his corps under General Shields; but Jackson did not know that, nor did Ashby (who with two to three hundred cavalry and guns from Chew's battery was making the preliminary demonst part of his army had left, and that nothing remained but a few regiments to garrison the place. He knew that the people would convey false information to Jackson at New Market, as indeed they did, for Jackson turned instantly in pursuit. On the 22d, when Ashby drove in Shields's pickets, he discovered only what he supposed to be a single brigade. On the 23d, when Jackson attacked, he soon found he had caught a tartar. His force of 4,000 was opposed, not to 2,000 less than his own, but to
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he people would convey false information to Jackson at New Market, as indeed they did, for Jackson turned instantly in pursuit. On the 22d, when Ashby drove in Shields's pickets, he discovered only what he supposed to be a single brigade. On the 23d, when Jackson attacked, he soon found he had caught a tartar. His force of 4,000 was opposed, not to 2,000 less than his own, but to the whole of Shields's division of 6,750 infantry, cavalry, and artillery, and no more. If Shields had remainthat his distance was too great from the Federal army for objects in view. On the 21st he acknowledged this, and said that he was about to move his headquarters to Woodstock, twelve miles from the enemy's camp. At about half-past 6 A. M., on the 23d, at Strasburg, he expressed a hope that he should be near Winchester that afternoon; and at ten o'clock that night he wrote in his brief manner that he attacked the Federal army at four P. M., and was repulsed by it at dark. He gave his force as
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ident that a battle was imminent, and that I was expected to push on to be in time to take a hand. When I reached Winchester it was late in the evening. I had done two days work in one,had marched twenty-six miles. Banks was at Middletown. There had been a fight; Shields's division had whipped Jackson, who was now being pursued by Banks, and the urgent calls upon me were to aid in the pursuit. I sent a messenger to Banks (twelve miles) to announce my arrival, and he, on the morning of the 25th, ordered me to report to him at Strasburg. It was apparent the fight with Jackson was not to be renewed at once. There was still a little daylight left, as with my staff I entered Winchester on the evening of the 24th; and I improved it, to ride with my aid over the field on which we had gained a decided victory. The wounded of both sides had been removed; but the dead still lay where they fell. Along the enemy's lines the ground was covered with them. The coming shades of twilight in th
February 22nd (search for this): chapter 6
ck A. M., of the tenth of March. While Congress had been sitting in judgment upon McClellan, condemning his policy and his plans, discussing his movements and misapprehending his motives, as if it had become a body of mis-representatives with the single purpose of decrying the commander of the Army of the Potomac, General McClellan had been carefully and methodically preparing his vast army for the field. I have referred to the onward movement ordered by the President on the twenty-second of February, with General McClellan in command of the grand army of the Potomac, organized into its several divisionary corps, under McDowell, Sumner, Heintzelman, Keyes, and Banks. Halleck was in charge of a department at the West, and Fremont in charge of the Mountain Department. It is with Banks's corps that our interest lies. While the others were to move on their devious way up the peninsula to Yorktown, Williamsburg, the Chickahominy, and the James, we were to move up the valley of th
February 23rd (search for this): chapter 6
that officer did not appreciate the value of time in its relation to national finances, and to a democratic form of Government; also that further delay involved national despondency, a tax levied upon the people for an immense debt which had borne no fruit in victories, distrust, a great fall in national stocks, and a possible if not probable foreign intervention. The President's Order No. 1, issued against McClellan's protest, peremptorily commanded an advance at all points on the twenty-third of February. McClellan was placed at the head of the Army of the Potomac, and soon ceased to be commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States. It was very early in the morning of the twenty-seventh of February, 1862, when I marched with my regiment through the streets of Frederick, in Maryland, to take the cars for Harper's Ferry. As the band aroused the town, young ladies, hurriedly dressed, waved handkerchiefs from windows and, in some cases with tears ill repressed, uttered a tr
March 6th (search for this): chapter 6
as his slave that I was ordered in 1861 to catch and return from Harper's Ferry), who in a polite note begged the favor of my protection for his family, consisting of Mrs. Ranson in delicate health, his daughter and her child, and himself their sole protector. Recalling, the note continued, our brief interview last summer, at Harper's Ferry, I congratulate myself in appealing to one who so favorably impressed me upon that occasion. Hovering over a stove in my tent on the night of the sixth of March,--it was bitter cold,--I wore away the evening until late, in a vain effort to read by a wretched candle stuck in a splinter of wood for a stand; and then, with a sense of uneasiness, a presage that some disagreeable duty was impending, I invoked slumber,--though in vain, for hardly had I lost myself when an orderly, galloping through my camp, halted at my tent, with despatches for Colonel Gordon. With matches ready, I struck a light and read as follows : General Abercrombie wi
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