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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 2: Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights—Darnstown, Maryland.--Muddy Branch and Seneca Creek on the Potomac—Winter quarters at Frederick, Md. (search)
at Leesburg. In co-operating with this movement General Stone sent a large force to Edward's Ferry, and increased the command at Harrison's Island. At Edward's Ferry, three miles from Poolsville, Stone made a feint of crossing the river, on the 20th, at one o'clock P. M. Several boat-loads of troops crossed and recrossed, lines of troops were deployed on the Maryland shore, as if preparatory to embarkation, while batteries opened with shells upon a regiment of the enemy's infantry that appear earth and laid up to form an intrenched position. Colonel Lee ordered the two mountain howitzers, under command of Lieutenant French of Co. I, First United States Artillery, to be sent over;--and as they had been ordered to report to him on the 20th, and were then on Harrison's Island, they came immediately. Between halfpast twelve and one o'clock Lieutenant-Colonel Ward, with the remainder of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment, appeared on the Virginia bluff, and immediately proceeded to
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
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