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ng that tended to a result. On the eighth of May, returning from the mountain, we again pitched our tents in New Market. I do not recall more sleepy and dreamy hours than for a few days were passed there while awaiting the order to return to Strasburg. The official report of the evacuation by the enemy of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., we received on Sunday the eleventh of May, the anniversary of the day on which the Second Massachusetts Regiment was mustered into the service of the United States for three years or the war. New Orleans, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Yorktown had been snatched from Rebel grasp, and we counted as surely upon Richmond to follow; so in noisy demonstrations with the bands we celebrated our anniversary, saddened by the reflection that to us had fallen only the task of holding Strasburg for the protection of the valley. On the thirteenth of May Williams's division re-entered Strasburg. The roads, the bridges, the scenes, and the people were little cha
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Chapter 4: the Valley of the Shenandoah (continued)—Return to Strasburg. At Edenburg the weather was sometimes like our own New England in June, when the air is warm and hazy, and the leaves rustle with a dreamy melody, and birds are exuberant with song. But hardly had we begun to feel in harmony with sunny days and blooming peach1-trees and warm showers, before a chill came over us, as bitter as the hatred of the women of Virginia; the ground covered with snow, the air thick with hail, and the distant mountains hidden in the chilling and frozen atmosphere. Our shivering sentinels on the outer lines met at times the gaze of half-frozen horsemen of the enemy, peering through the mist as if to see what the Yankees had been doing within the last twenty-four hours. It was hard to believe we were in the sunny South, for there was never more marrow-penetrating weather at the North. Life entered upon at Edenburg under the excitement of a fight became monotonous. Tents began to take
Bentonville (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
st his guns of shorter range, English ammunition, and shells that did not always burst. On the seventeenth of April, when the joyful news came to move forward in pursuit of Jackson, it was received with cheers of delight. The objective point was New Market, fifteen miles farther southward on the pike. If the enemy was disposed to give battle, there were some strong positions on our route. The military problem, therefore, was to turn them with one column, while another moved forward. Mill Creek at Mount Jackson, like Stony Creek at Edenburg, rises in the range of mountains bounding the valley on the west, flows at right angles to the pike, crosses it, and empties into the North Fork of the Shenandoah. On the south side of the creek, a few hundred yards from the bridge, rises the commanding hill called Mount Jackson. The pike passes through the flat bottom-land, south of the creek, before it winds over the hill, whose summit not only commands all the approaches, but, if held, ma
Luray (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
s at New Market. Crossing the Massauutten range of mountains at a gap, a wide road leading from the North Fork valley of the Shenandoah eastwardly over the mountain into the valley of the South Fork afforded Jackson a splendid opportunity, if we were unguarded, of taking us in rear. This gap-road, before leaving the mountain on the eastern side, diverges into two branches, one of which crosses the South Fork of the Shenandoah at Columbia Bridge, the other at Massanutten town, and thence to Luray. Colonel Sullivan of Shields's division, who had been left to guard Columbia Bridge, informed Banks, about the first of May, that a deserter reported that on the thirtieth of April Jackson had moved with his whole force towards Harrisonburg; whence, he believed, he had returned and marched towards Port Republic. Tile deserter estimated his whole force to be about fifteen thousand men, composed of twelve or fifteen regiments commanded by Jackson, Taliaferro, Winder, and Ewell, and added tha
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
the mountain, we again pitched our tents in New Market. I do not recall more sleepy and dreamy hours than for a few days were passed there while awaiting the order to return to Strasburg. The official report of the evacuation by the enemy of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., we received on Sunday the eleventh of May, the anniversary of the day on which the Second Massachusetts Regiment was mustered into the service of the United States for three years or the war. New Orleans, Norfolk, PortsmoNorfolk, Portsmouth, and Yorktown had been snatched from Rebel grasp, and we counted as surely upon Richmond to follow; so in noisy demonstrations with the bands we celebrated our anniversary, saddened by the reflection that to us had fallen only the task of holding Strasburg for the protection of the valley. On the thirteenth of May Williams's division re-entered Strasburg. The roads, the bridges, the scenes, and the people were little changed; but the contrast between the advancing and retreating march w
Strasburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
rmy. At Charlestown, at Winchester, and at Strasburg, we had heard extravagant stories of the gre Jackson, p. 126. Though the valley from Strasburg had at every step developed new beauties, ths in the same state of excitement as when at Strasburg was apparent from a despatch received from there while awaiting the order to return to Strasburg. The official report of the evacuation byat to us had fallen only the task of holding Strasburg for the protection of the valley. On the teenth of May Williams's division re-entered Strasburg. The roads, the bridges, the scenes, and thBy orders from Washington we were to fortify Strasburg; Why the Government should have treated Front Royal as an outpost and Strasburg as the main place to be defended it is impossible to explainthe service required thewriters to remain at Strasburg (within the valley). Major Scott, of Col supplies. The amount of public property at Strasburg was enormous. Since we had first passed th[3 more...]
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re, Clerk. In the middle of a vast clover-field just on the outskirts of the town my regiment, with the others of my brigade, were encamped. By orders from Washington we were to fortify Strasburg; Why the Government should have treated Front Royal as an outpost and Strasburg as the main place to be defended it is impossible to explain. Invited by General Banks, upon his accession to Patterson's command, to come to him at any and all times with such suggestions upon military affairs as I might wish to make, I took the liberty of advising him to move his main force to Front Royal, and thus holding a pass over the Blue Ridge so place himself upon his line of communications that his small force could not be surrounded by a larger one of the enemy. I besought him to apply for a change of orders to enable him to do this ; and Major Perkins, his adjutant-general, joined me in my intercessions. But Banks was immovable. therefore we did the best we could to throw up an incomplete f
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
of May, and brought General Banks unexpectedly to the front. He came to call together the general officers of his command, to discuss the practicability and wisdom of a movement against Jackson. Hardly had the subject been broached, when a despatch from the Secretary of War quenched the rising flame. We (Williams's division, with all the cavalry and artillery) were directed to return to Strasburg, while Shields with his division was ordered to cross the Blue Ridge and join McDowell at Fredericksburg. The change was to take place immediately; we were to move at daylight on the return to New Market. The glories of a campaign in the valley, so full of promise, were fading. During the day and night of Sunday, preparations for the return were made. On Monday morning some movement of the enemy, probably following up our rear-guard as it was withdrawn from the outpost and picket stations, gave rise to a rumor that Jackson was drawing near for a fight. General Williams wrote me a fe
Rude's Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
was again organized, to proceed along the north side of the creek to the middle road, then turning south to follow it to New Market; thus turning Mount Jackson, Rude's Hill, and all other strong positions on the road. The turning column comprised two brigades, one of Shields's division commanded by Colonel Dunning, and my own. Wituntil dark; every one was completely exhausted. I had been in the saddle from 4 A. M. until 9 P. M. We were within two miles of New Market, and well in rear of Rude's Hill and all other threatening positions, when the column halted, and the men fell asleep as soon as they touched the ground. In the morning we learned that Shields had the night before passed through the town, and gone four miles beyond it; that Jackson had made no stand at Rude's Hill, but that at ten o'clock--two hours at least before we began our grand flank movement — he had passed through New Market, which is four miles farther south than the point to be turned by our flanking march.
Mount Jackson (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ar us; they were some eight miles away, at Mount Jackson, and ready to run when we approached. It hile another moved forward. Mill Creek at Mount Jackson, like Stony Creek at Edenburg, rises in the bridge, rises the commanding hill called Mount Jackson. The pike passes through the flat bottom- across the creek at Edenburg, forward for Mount Jackson. The leading column, commanded by Generalmn (should the enemy stand before reaching Mount Jackson), moved on this middle road with orders tohat Jackson would not meet us this side of Mount Jackson, we proceeded more leisurely. As usual, Ah to follow it to New Market; thus turning Mount Jackson, Rude's Hill, and all other strong positioen began to drop out shortly after leaving Mount Jackson; and from there to New Market they were scy. The important bridge over the creek at Mount Jackson, which in fight and in flight on our advanth two sabres and three revolvers, From Mount Jackson, May 10, 1862. To Maj.-Gen. N. P. Banks. [2 more...]
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