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Keyes (search for this): chapter 9
ff by our guns from across the river. Information of the numbers of Stonewall Jackson's forces given by observers during his occupation of towns between Winchester and Martinsburg, shows that we had not greatly exaggerated his strength. Their lowest estimate placed the combined strength of the enemy at twenty thousand. See Jackson's Valley Campaign, p. 111, in which the total of Jackson's command is placed at 15,000 or 16,000. In the pursuit of Shields and Fremont, the battles of Cross Keyes and Port Republic, the march of Jackson to unite with the Army of Virginia, we did not participate; therefore I leave them with no other allusion. On the thirty-first of May, the enemy at Bunker Hill, Martinsburg, and Charlestown was apprised that Fremont from the west and McDowell from the east were closing in upon his rear. In one week after our fight at Winchester, Jackson, with his whole army, turned southward in flight. The effect of our retreat upon the country was startling. In
Courtenay (search for this): chapter 9
re he was joined by Steuart's cavalry from Newtown), Ewell confronted our outlying pickets. This command consisted, as it will be remembered, of a North Carolina brigade under General Trimble, of the First Maryland Regiment, and two batteries (Courtenay's and Brockenbrough's). As Ewell, at dawn the next morning, advanced his brigade, the left regiment, the Twenty-first North Carolina, under command of Colonel Kirkland, encountered Donelly's brigade in line, covered by a stone-wall. Donclly's na, Colonel Mercer, with the Twenty-first Georgia, advanced, turned the flank of the enemy on that side, and by means of an enfilading fire quickly drove him from the position unsuccessfully attacked by Colonel Kirkland. Latimer (in command of Courtenay's guns) and Brockenbrough contributed to this result with their batteries. The Federals took a new position nearer the town. The remainder of Trimble's brigade (Sixteenth Mississippi and Fifteenth Alabama regiments) now joined the Twenty-firs
John A. Campbell (search for this): chapter 9
ry, composed of the batteries of Poague, Carpenter, and Cutshaw, were then advanced and supported by two brigades of infantry, the Stonewall, and that of Colonel John A. Campbell. As the Second Regiment on the right of the line moved up to the crest of the hill, the enemy opened upon it with grape; but it continued steadily on y's Life of Jackson, p. 104. General Jackson, it seems, had been an observer of our movements. He is described as having ridden forward with two field-officers, Campbell and another, to the very crest of the hill, and amidst a perfect shower of balls observed the position. It is said that though both the officers beside him wereld mount to the crest of the hill without hearing the sudden report of their excellent long-range guns, succeeded by the whistling of balls near his person. Colonel Campbell, commanding the second brigade of Jackson's division, went up to the summit to reconnoitre, and was giving some directions to Colonel Patton, the senior offi
Carpenter (search for this): chapter 9
ong detachment of artillery, composed of the batteries of Poague, Carpenter, and Cutshaw, were then advanced and supported by two brigades off, commanding the Thirty-third Virginia infantry, then supporting Carpenter's Battery, he asked him,-- Colonel, wllre is your regiment posned with a battery directly in front; and to dislodge these guns, Carpenter's and Cutshaw's batteries, with two Parrott guns from the Rockbri's Life of Jackson, p. 149. The battery upon which Dabney says Carpenter and Cutshaw also kept up so spirited a contest with the batteriesthe Stonewall brigade (Jackson's own, under General Winder), with Carpenter's and Taliaferro's brigades, and three batteries, had been held itre, and ordered a general advance; then moving to the hill where Carpenter's battery was firing upon us, the same from which he had exposed tre, they swarmed in pursuit. There in front were the Stonewall, Carpenter's, and Taliaferro's brigades; to my right was Taylor's brigade; a
Poague (search for this): chapter 9
ny position against the overwhelming force in our front. See Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 104. A strong detachment of artillery, composed of the batteries of Poague, Carpenter, and Cutshaw, were then advanced and supported by two brigades of infantry, the Stonewall, and that of Colonel John A. Campbell. As the Second Regim horses attached to the Confederate. batteries, which were now engaged hotly on the left. The combined fire of sharp-shooters and artillery was so heavy that Captain Poague, who was most exposed to the enemy, was compelled to change position in the midst of a storm of balls. He rapidly withdrew his guns, moved to the left and rehim, when a ball pierced his arm and breast, and he was borne from the field, leaving Patton in command. To drive out these persistent and accurate marksmen, Captain Poague threw several solid shot at the wall which protected them; but in spite of the missiles and crashing stones around them, the line of sharp-shooters still gall
Forrest (search for this): chapter 9
as presented to me with all the names it now bears, save that of Crawford, which was placed there afterwards. But the feeling among the troops themselves, as indicating their opinion of the part taken by the Second Massachusetts Regiment, is of more worth in my eyes than any praise bestowed upon us by others. The thirty-first of May found Mr. Dwight, of Boston, the brother of our captured major, at our camp, en route through Martinsburg to Winchester to learn his brother's fate. Colonel De Forrest, then in command at Martinsburg, was ordered by General Hatch to send with Mr. Dwight an escort of ten men,--men who can remember what they see of the enemy and his strength. Let them move, said the order, with a white flag, twenty yards in advance of the main body, and waving the flag, wait to be recognized by the enemy's pickets. How our major escaped from captivity without aid from his brother has been told too many times to repeat. On the twenty-first of June a despatch came
Flournoy (search for this): chapter 9
rses and a few men; but even this was stopped a short distance beyond Martinsburg. After twenty-four miles of mounted pursuit of foot-men, even the cavalry was tired. Where was Steuart with his three cavalry regiments,--Ashby's, Munford's, and Flournoy's,--to oppose General Hatch with less than one (he had, as it will be remembered, less than nine hundred men at Strasburg). Undoubtedly a feeble pursuit by cavalry was made on the Harper's Ferry road and on the railroad, where broken parts of oueven ordinary ability would have done, under similar circumstances? Feeling the necessity of defending him, Dabney or Cooke, or both of them, aver that General Jackson ordered General Steuart to follow with his cavalry and capture us, even as Flournoy had ridden down and captured Kenly on the 23d in his attempt at escape; and that Steuart would not obey, because he was under the immediate command of Ewell, from whom he had received no orders. What man of military fame would not blush at such
Cutshaw (search for this): chapter 9
overwhelming force in our front. See Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 104. A strong detachment of artillery, composed of the batteries of Poague, Carpenter, and Cutshaw, were then advanced and supported by two brigades of infantry, the Stonewall, and that of Colonel John A. Campbell. As the Second Regiment on the right of the gy which should give the Federal forces no time to prepare. They had hastily opened with a battery directly in front; and to dislodge these guns, Carpenter's and Cutshaw's batteries, with two Parrott guns from the Rockbridge artillery, were rapidly placed in position and opened fire. The battle speedily commenced in good earnest.round them, the line of sharp-shooters still gallantly held their position. --Cooke's Life of Jackson, p. 149. The battery upon which Dabney says Carpenter and Cutshaw also kept up so spirited a contest with the batteries in the direction of the town as to silence their fire, was Best's smooth-bore battery, which alone, near the
Patton (search for this): chapter 9
en report of their excellent long-range guns, succeeded by the whistling of balls near his person. Colonel Campbell, commanding the second brigade of Jackson's division, went up to the summit to reconnoitre, and was giving some directions to Colonel Patton, the senior officer under him, when a ball pierced his arm and breast, and he was borne from the field, leaving Patton in command. To drive out these persistent and accurate marksmen, Captain Poague threw several solid shot at the wall whichPatton in command. To drive out these persistent and accurate marksmen, Captain Poague threw several solid shot at the wall which protected them; but in spite of the missiles and crashing stones around them, the line of sharp-shooters still gallantly held their position. --Cooke's Life of Jackson, p. 149. The battery upon which Dabney says Carpenter and Cutshaw also kept up so spirited a contest with the batteries in the direction of the town as to silence their fire, was Best's smooth-bore battery, which alone, near the Strasburg pike and to my left, formed the centre of our line of battle. The battery which Cooke sa
T. J. Jackson (search for this): chapter 9
eded. As I write these lines, the name of T. J. Jackson, of Virginia, confronts me from a sheet fid Jack, who as Lieutenant-General (Stonewall) Jackson remembered me, in 1862, no longer as a friendshots and ringing cheers. Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 104. In the main street I found myself, wemonstration of affection by the inhabitants, Jackson is represented as, for the first and only timered by those who claim that on this occasion Jackson exhibited the highest order of military talent. The pursuit was feeble in the extreme. Jackson followed us to Bunker Hill, thirteen miles, bs. It was entirely due to this regiment that Jackson was unable to, or at any rate did not, seize ry. Hoping that the cavalry would come up, Jackson pursued the Federals for two hours with artilnto camp. It appears that the cavalry failed Jackson because those of Ashby's command had not yet of the Campaign of General T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson, by William Allan, p. 115. It remains to [5 more...]
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