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hirtieth 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 town were surprised. On the morning of the 7th the army moved
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e 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 town were surprised. On the morning of the 7th the army moved against Milroy. Edwards's brigade in advance; .then Taliaferro's (3d); next Colonel Campbell's (2d); and in the rear the Stonewall brigade, General C. S. Winder (the 1st). The corps of Cadets of the Virginia Mil
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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 town were surprised. On the morning of the 7th the army moved against Milroy. Edwards's brigade in advance; .then Taliaferro's (3d); next Colonel Campbell's (2d); and in the rear the Stonewall brigade, General C. S. Winder (the 1st). The corps of Cadets of the Virginia Military Institute, where Jackson had. been a superintendent, was attached to the expedition. The troops moved on
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e west side of the Shenandoah Mountain, moving down the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike. Milroy made an effort to stop it with artillery, but without success. Jackson bivouacked at night on Shaw's Fork, twenty-nine miles from Staunton. On the 8th he resumed his march; climbed the Bull Pasture Mountain, and from its plateau looked down on the village of MacDowell and Milroy's camps in the valley of the Bull Pasture. Though Jackson could have reached the village and the camps with artilleryopportunity to play his favorite flanking game, and that night Jackson determined to run the hazard of it. But in the mean time Schenck had left Franklin. Making thirty-four miles in twenty-three hours, he had reached Milroy at 10 A. M. of the 8th, with 1,300 infantry, one battery, and 250 cavalry. Jackson's reconnoissance on Litlington's Hill (the open ground on the western ridge) made it look as if the camp of the Federals and the village of MacDowell would be severely shelled. Milroy t
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k lighted his camp-fires and fell back in the direction of Franklin. This was done without loss either of men or material, except of some stores for which Milroy had no transportation. On the ninth of May Jackson moved into MacDowell and fed his troops. On the tenth of May Jackson moved forward in pursuit. Coming to roads that led to Harrisonburg, it was feared Banks might send reinforcements to Schenck. The narrow defiles of the roads were therefore blocked up by felled trees. On the 11th the pursuit was continued. Schenck set fire to the forests. The sky was overcast with volumes of smoke, which shut out the view. Jackson moved slowly: his skirmishers scoured the burning woods on each side of the highway. The Federals posted cannon on every height, and used them to retard the progress of their enemy. Jackson declared that this smoke was the most adroit expedient to which a retreating foe could resort to embarrass pursuit, and that it entailed upon him all the disadvantag
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ill at Elk Run watching Banks; and that an emergency at Fredericksburg or Richmond might cause the loss of Ewell, and interfere with his cherished plan of demolishing Banks. So he decided to unite his forces. A courier was sent at once to Ewell with this announcement, and one half of Monday the twelfth of May granted to the soldiers in lieu of the whole of Sunday, which had been devoted to secular concerns. On the evening of the fourteenth of May Jackson reached MacDowell again, and on the 17th, turning towards Harrisonburg, encamped at Mossy Creek and Bridgewater. For many facts in this narration of Jackson's movements. on MacDowell, I am indebted to the very clear account given by Colonel William Allan in his Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861-1862. In utter ignorance, as I believe, of Jackson's movements on MacDowell as here recorded, and, as I know, of the contemplated attack upon Banks, we had remained serenely tranquil at Harrisonburg until the fifth of May, wh
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vements before Richmond should draw off the enemy; an army only too anxious to meet us, It was now hoped by all that Banks would leave the road, push on through Harrisonburg, and attack us. Battle-fields of the South, p. 324. even before the War Department so suddenly scattered the council at Harrisonburg on that Sunday on the fourth of May. O happy War Department! On the morning of the nineteenth of May Jackson left Mossy Creek, and moved forward to New Market, which he reached on the 20th, having been joined en route by Taylor's brigade of Ewell's division. On the twenty-first of May he turned off at New Market, crossed the Massanutten Mountain, and the South Fork of the Shenandoah at White House Bridge, where he met Ewell with the remainder of his command, and encamped at the eastern entrance of the New Market Gap of the Massanutten. Of this movement Banks was ignorant; for when we abandoned New Market Ashby occupied it, and posted scouts as far as Strasburg,--so that t
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rdon in the centre, and General Hatch in the rear. See Banks's official report, Moore's Rebellion Record, vol. IX. When I besought Banks, at 11 P. M. of the 23d, to start then for Winchester, he replied that he would not retreat, repeating with an oath his fear of public opinion. At 3 A. M. of the 24th (he says in his offiry to follow his movements, and discover why he did not surround us at Strasburg before daylight of the twenty-fourth of May. Had Jackson moved on the night of the 23d, as he had intended, Cooke's Life of Jackson, p. 144. the morning of May 24 would have dawned upon his army surrounding Banks in Strasburg. It was an untoward eexpected to cut the Winchester road before we could pass Middletown. Recalling the condition of fatigue in which his troops entered Front Royal on the night of the 23d, it will be remembered why Jackson was obliged to defer his march until daylight of the 24th, when, with his whole army, save the forces under Steuart and Ewell, -
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ffair Banks declares that before three o'clock on the morning of the 24th, about four hours after I left him at night, he had information thatin the order of occurrence, says: At three o'clock A. M., on the 24th instant, the reinforcements sent to Kenly were ordered to return, severaepeating with an oath his fear of public opinion. At 3 A. M. of the 24th (he says in his official report) he was convinced that Winchester wa our wagon train having been ordered to Winchester at 3 A. M. of the 24th, it was not sent until nearly eleven o'clock of that day,--eight houred why Jackson was obliged to defer his march until daylight of the 24th, when, with his whole army, save the forces under Steuart and Ewell,chester. From between two and three o'clock in the afternoon of the 24th, to between two and three o'clock on the morning of the 25th, we hadhe constant fighting of one of them, the Second, from 3 P. M. of the 24th until 2 A. M. of the next day; the coldness of the night, and the wa
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single ambulance, he got well out beyond the pickets; but finding that the regiment was still farther out, how much he could not imagine, he returned again to town. Lieutenant Francis, then acting as regimental quartermaster, had been more fortunate, and met the regiment with half-a-dozen ambulances; but the wounded had been captured. We had thus reached Winchester. From between two and three o'clock in the afternoon of the 24th, to between two and three o'clock on the morning of the 25th, we had held back the enemy. Though we could not cut through his columns, we had not only snatched from him much valuable property that he was ready to grasp, but had so delayed his march that ample time had been afforded Banks to remove all the public property in town to a place of safety, and take such measures for the future as sound judgment should dictate. I determined to hunt up General Banks, and give him such facts as the experiences I have related revealed. Without much difficult
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