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Strasburg, Fulkerson's brigade having marched from Woodstock, and Garnett's (Stonewall's) with Burks's from Mount Jackson, twenty-two miles.
During the night Shields sent forward more troops.
Kimball's brigade and Daum's artillery went out on the Strasburg road nearly to Kernstown.
In rear, Sullivan supported Kimball, and covered the approaches to Winchester on the east and west; Tyler's brigade and Broadhead's cavalry were held in reserve.
In the morning (the 23d), at nine o'clock, Colonel Mason of the Fourth Ohio made a reconnoissance; he was out one hour, and reported that Ashby's was the only hostile force before us; and this was then true.
Both Banks and Shields agreed that this was not a dangerous indication, and the former between one and two P. M. left for Washington.
On the same morning, too, at daylight, Jackson pressed forward from Strasburg.
At one P. M. his whole force reached the vicinity of Kernstown, a march of fourteen miles. Jackson meant to have deferred his attack until the next day, for his troops were weary; but when he saw that the Federals could overlook his position, and reflected that his enemy could strengthen himself by reinforcements, he changed his purpose and prepared to deliver battle at once.
Not yet was he undeceived.
We may here state that Jackson's army consisted of the first (Stonewall) brigade of five regiments under General Garnett, the second of three regiments and one battalion under Colonel Burks, and the third of two regiments under Colonel Fulkerson.
The Rebel army numbered in infantry 3,087, and had of artillery 27 pieces; of cavalry 290.
The force under General Shields1 numbered in infantry
1 First brigade, Kimball's,--Eighth Ohio; Sixty-seventh Ohio; Fourteenth Indiana; Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania. Second brigade, Sullivan's, -Thirteenth Indiana; Fifth Ohio; Sixty-second Ohio; Thirty-ninth Illinois. Third brigade, Tyler's,--Seventh Ohio; Twenty-ninth Ohio; First Virginia; Seventh Indiana; One Hundred Tenth Pennsylvania. Daum's Artillery,--Jenks's Battery A, First Virginia; Clark's Battery E, Fourth Artillery; Davis's Battery B, First Virginia; Robinson's Battery L, First Ohio; Huntington's Battery H, First Ohio. Broadhead's Cavalry,four companies First Michigan; two companies Ohio; two companies Maryland; six companies First Virginia; two companies Ringgold and Washington cavalry.
James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.
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