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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
wn. Such results were to be avoided; and in Jackson's mind the best way to avoid them was to strengthen his own division by uniting with Johnson's, and then with both to fall upon Milroy; after which he would, with the addition of Ewell's division, attack Banks. Conforming to this plan, Ewell was ordered to march his division to the position which Jackson occupied in Elk Run Valley, and thus hold Banks in check. See Jackson's official report, containing a letter to General Lee, dated April 29, 1862. All the Rebel forces then located in the valley, within this theatre of operations, are given by a Confederate historian as 17,000 under Jackson (of which 6,000 were at Swift Run Gap), 8,000 under Ewell (one day's march in his rear east of the Blue Ridge), and 3,000 with Edward Johnson at West View, seven miles west of Staunton, and over forty from Swift Run Gap. Banks, at Harrisonburg, with 19,000 Federals, made up of 8,000 men (including cavalry) in Banks's corps, and 11,000 in