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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)
rnpike five miles west of MacDowell, had been discovered by Jackson's engineers. It was a grand opportunity to play his favorite flanking game, and that night Jackson determined to run the hazard of it. But in the mean time Schenck had left Franklin. Making thirty-four miles in twenty-three hours, he had reached Milroy at 10 A. M. of the 8th, with 1,300 infantry, one battery, and 250 cavalry. Jackson's reconnoissance on Litlington's Hill (the open ground on the western ridge) made it lookilled, 28 ; wounded, 225; and 3 missing. Campaign in the Valley of Virginia, by William Allan, pp. 77, 78. When the Federals had safely withdrawn from the battle-field, General Schenck lighted his camp-fires and fell back in the direction of Franklin. This was done without loss either of men or material, except of some stores for which Milroy had no transportation. On the ninth of May Jackson moved into MacDowell and fed his troops. On the tenth of May Jackson moved forward in pursuit.