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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
May 24th (search for this): chapter 8
Turning now to Jackson, it belongs to this history 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 May 24 would have dawned upon his army surrounding Banks in Strasburg. It was an untoward event, a blunder, says a Southern writer, that delayed Jackson's march. Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 94. The main body of his command had diverged by mistake to the right, by the steep and narrow by-path taken by the advance when they gained the Gooney Manor Road (the road frort. the column pushed forward. We had been detained about an hour. Donelly's brigade and a wagon-train entered Winchester early in the afternoon of the twenty-fourth of May, without sight or sound of an enemy; but our fate was different, and was as follows: Notwithstanding the confusion, Occasioned by wagons being ordered
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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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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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ee 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 ed upon him all the disadvantages of a night attack. See Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861-1862, by William Allan, from which, on page 80, this extract from Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 35he 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, as practicable, that he designed threatening that line. Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861-1862, p. 88. On the morning of the eighteenth of May General Jackson was at Mount Crawford, out 17,000 men, with 11 batteries, containing 48 guns. See Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861--1862. were to be precipitated upon the six thousand four hundred and eight infantry, cavalry,
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ckson'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 ton him all the disadvantages of a night attack. See Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861-1862, by William Allan, from which, on page 80, this extract from Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 351, isry 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,racticable, that he designed threatening that line. Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861-1862, p. 88. On the morning of the eighteenth of May General Jackson was at Mount Crawford, Bat,000 men, with 11 batteries, containing 48 guns. See Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861--1862. were to be precipitated upon the six thousand four hundred and eight infantry, cavalry, and ar
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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
May 2nd (search for this): chapter 8
demonstrations in force towards Harrisonburg. They were repeated on the 30th. Banks 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
May 4th (search for this): chapter 8
orce Banks had ever had in the valley, we might not have coped; a combined army from which McClellan feared disaster, should we proceed too far south until his movements 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 Ga
May 5th (search for this): chapter 8
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, when, as narrated, Shields's division marched towards Fredericksburg to join General McDowell at that place. On the fourteenth of May General Lee heard of Shields's movement towards Front Royal, and wrote 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 did not prevent his moving to either place, and might also lead to the recall of the reinforcements sent to Fremont from Wi
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