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Front Royal (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
nd. From one and a half to two miles on my left, on the Front Royal road, Ewell was confronted by Donelly's brigade of threewell. Having reached a position on the direct road from Front Royal to Winchester, within two miles of the latter, at ten o'nclude Ashby's loss, and that in the Louisiana troops at Front Royal, and in the First Maryland. See Jackson's Valley Campai all of our supplies were thus saved. But the stores at Front Royal, of which he had no knowledge until his visit to that ponstituting a portion of this army, over General Banks at Front Royal, Middletown, and Winchester, declares that several thoussburg in an ambulance: Ashby, it appears, was wounded at Front Royal in the shoulder, and could not mount a horse. Followingo went to Boston about the time Jackson broke through at Front Royal, and wrote letters and editorials abusing the Administraort on the preceding day by rail, via Manassas, to reach Front Royal, to which place my command had moved from Bartonsville,
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
Not another man was available. There was no support between us and the Potomac. During our whole fight the Tenth Maine Regiment, on duty as a provost-guard at Winchester, was allowed to perform this duty. If Banks knew they were in town, he did not call upon them. It is claimed that they were held in reserve ; but it is manifest that if in that battle of Winchester it was proper to hold any troops in reserve, there was no lack of occasion to call upon them; and this was not done. See Maine in the War, p. 229. Above the surrounding crests surged the enemy, who opened upon us a sharp and withering fire of musketry. A storm of bullets from the hill where we had so long confronted the main body of Jackson's forces crossed a deadlier fire from Taylor's brigade, now on the crest in our rear. Above the din of musketry, a yell of triumph rose from the endless columns that seemed to gird the town. My troops were not dismayed, though many had fallen. We had not yet gained the cover
Martinsburg (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
to the main street, through which, towards Martinsburg, moved the main column of our troops. An ecame out of the town upon the north, on the Martinsburg road, where a long column of baggage-wagonsen this was stopped a short distance beyond Martinsburg. After twenty-four miles of mounted pursuir debouching upon the plain and turnpike to Martinsburg, and after being fired upon by our artillerted, proceeded as far as Hainesville beyond Martinsburg, contenting himself with picking up a good by birth, he volunteered to drive Ashby to Martinsburg in an ambulance: Ashby, it appears, was wou occupation of towns between Winchester and Martinsburg, shows that we had not greatly exaggerated ptured 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.d the river at Williamsport, moved through Martinsburg and Winchester, over historic ground, and w[2 more...]
Sandy Hook, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
overnor Andrew. In other States the excitement was scarcely less intense than in Massachusetts. New York sent her Eleventh Regiment of State Militia. It arrived at Harper's Ferry on the thirtieth of May; but the men refused to be sworn into the service of the United States unless they could dictate terms, which were, that they should go to Washington and be placed in a camp of instruction. These being rejected by officers of the United States army, the whole regiment marched over to Sandy Hook, where the troops slept upon it, with the result that eight companies took the oath, one asked for further time, and one started for home. On the twenty-eighth of May, General Banks thought it his duty to assign a full brigadier-general to the command of my brigade, and make the War Department responsible for the change. For this he selected General Greene, General order no. 26.Headquarters Department of the Shenandoah, Williamsport, Md., May 28, 1862. I. Brigadier-General Geo
Meridian (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
scene upon my mind. There, just below us, in good rifle-range, preceded by swarms of skirmishers, regiment after regiment of the enemy were moving in good order steadily but rapidly up the hill. This was Taylor's brigade, numbering four thousand men (about five hundred more than the whole of Banks's army), as appears from the following letter to me from General George L. Andrews, my former Lieutenant-Colonel:-- West Point, N. Y., June 14, 1875. Dear General, After the surrender at Meridian, on the borders of Alabama and Mississippi, where I went to receive the parole of General Taylor's army, I had a conversation with the latter about the Winchester fight. In the course of it, I said that if we could have opposed his whole brigade with a battery, and reserved the infantry fire longer, I thought we might have checked him. He replied in substance that no doubt we should have hurt them a good deal, but he thought we could not have stopped him; adding, I had four thousand men
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
d, 155; missing, 711, -total, 904. He thinks the number killed and wounded may be larger than this, while many missing may return, but that the aggregate will not be changed. To our own force, as enumerated, should be added five companies of Maryland cavalry that were stationed at Winchester. The loss of the Confederates is given in Jackson's report as 68 killed, 329 wounded, and 3 missing. But to these Allan thinks about 40 should be added, to include Ashby's loss, and that in the Louisiannt Royal, to which place my command had moved from Bartonsville, I shook the dust of Washington from my feet, not to return to it again for two months, when, as part of a wrecked and broken army, we made our way across the Potomac to fight under McClellan at Antietam, for the safety of Maryland and the North. Before leaving Washington, I enlightened the Committee on the Conduct of the War upon the subject of Union guards over enemy's property, upon which political soldiers were much exercised.
Hainesville (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
time on a point of military etiquette before he yielded to an urgent order of Lieutenant Pendleton of Jackson's staff to follow the enemy, which afforded the Federal army time to make such headway that it was beyond, as Jackson declared, the reach of successful pursuit. With what cavalry Ashby could collect, he moved by way of Berryville to Harper's Ferry, halting at Halltown, while Steuart, passing the advance of the Confederate infantry an hour after it had halted, proceeded as far as Hainesville beyond Martinsburg, contenting himself with picking up a good many prisoners. See history of the Campaign of General T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson, by William Allan, p. 115. It remains to consider our losses in this retreat,--first of men, second of material Banks, in his official report of losses on the 24th and 25th, gives as killed, 38; wounded, 155; missing, 711, -total, 904. He thinks the number killed and wounded may be larger than this, while many missing may return, but tha
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ned, of their reception by my brigade, and of Jackson's observation of the scene: When the Fifth Vilank and rear. This manceuvre, combined with Jackson's success on the other flank, caused the wholre we had so long confronted the main body of Jackson's forces crossed a deadlier fire from Taylor'ng were most inadequate. It was a mercy that Jackson's unwilling cavalry and too tired infantry di most plucky manner, as narrated, the head of Jackson's army, materially defeating his plans, and gthirty-six miles in about twelve hours. In Jackson's report, he admits that the Federal forces, to an urgent order of Lieutenant Pendleton of Jackson's staff to follow the enemy, which afforded t Front Royal, and in the First Maryland. See Jackson's Valley Campaign, p. 118, note. Lieutenalley Campaign, p. 111, in which the total of Jackson's command is placed at 15,000 or 16,000. In tsville, where the Second had so ably arrested Jackson's march in the night of the twenty-fourth of [10 more...]
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
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 our command were seeking to make their way to Harper's Ferry: many stragglers, and men wearied from long marching, fasting, and fighting; also the wounded who had sunk on the ground overpowered, --many such were picked up by the enemy's cavalrysuccessful pursuit. With what cavalry Ashby could collect, he moved by way of Berryville to Harper's Ferry, halting at Halltown, while Steuart, passing the advance of the Confederate infantry an hourn; he attempted with his infantry to ford the Potomac two miles above the railroad bridge at Harper's Ferry, and was driven back by our shells, fired from batteries established where we first pitched than in Massachusetts. New York sent her Eleventh Regiment of State Militia. It arrived at Harper's Ferry on the thirtieth of May; but the men refused to be sworn into the service of the United Stat
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 9
resident as one of the reasons After Copeland's dismissal from the army, in August, 1862, he sought an interview with Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, at which the following occurred :-- The President replied, Well, sir, I know something about your case, and I'll tell you what I know. You're the man whoork sent her Eleventh Regiment of State Militia. It arrived at Harper's Ferry on the thirtieth of May; but the men refused to be sworn into the service of the United States unless they could dictate terms, which were, that they should go to Washington and be placed in a camp of instruction. These being rejected by officers of the861 it came to my knowledge that the congressional delegation from Massachusetts had recommended my promotion to a brigadier-generalslip. The President of the United States in a personal interview informed me that the reason why he did not heed this recommendation was because the Governor of your State protests against it. Mr. Li
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