Browsing named entities in George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain. You can also browse the collection for March 1st, 1862 AD or search for March 1st, 1862 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
See McClellan's Morning Report, March 2, 1862, Rebellion Record, vol. i. p. 546, supplement. Gorman's brigade of Sedgwick's division had been guarding the Potomac from Great Falls to the Monocacy, and was sent forward to Banks, March 11. The use to be made of it was primarily the capture of Winchester. It was reported, and we believed, that General (Stonewall) Jackson, with from seven to eleven thousand men, awaited us behind those fortified walls. Jackson's force at Winchester, March 1, 1862, was made up,--of infantry, 3,600 ; artillery, 369; cavalry, 601. This was called the Second Corps A. N. V., and numbered, say, 4,600 effective men. Joseph E. Johnston gives it as 5,276. The first brigade, commanded by Garnett, known as the Stonewall brigade, was made up of the 2d, 4th, 5th, 27th, and 33d Virginia regiments. The second brigade (Burks's) consisted of the 21st, 42d, 48th Virginia and the Irish battalion; the third brigade consisted of the 23d and 37th Virginia regiments