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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
el cavalry. Sometimes the enemy amused himself by throwing shells at our pickets, when they were a little too venturesome; but beyond a feeble show of strength and ugliness, nothing transpired to disturb the dulness of camp. It was on the first of April that Banks received from General McClellan a new plan of operations. Up to this point Jackson had planned our campaign. Now we were to plan Jackson's. From the steamer Commodore as his headquarters, on the first of April General McClellafirst of April General McClellan addressed to General Banks, commanding the Fifth Corps, a communication, in which he affirmed that the change in affairs in the valley of the Shenandoah rendered necessary a departure from the plan we some days since agreed upon. Assuming that Banks had a force sufficiently ample to drive Jackson before him, provided the latter was not largely reinforced, and that the former might find it impossible to detach anything towards Manassas for some days, probably not until the operations of the