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Confederate army of seventeen thousand men1 were to be precipitated upon the six thousand four hundred and eight infantry, cavalry, and artillery which, as Banks reported made up the whole of his command,2--a Confederate army against which, with the whole force Banks had ever had in the valley, we might not have coped; a combined army from which McClellan feared disaster, should we proceed too far south until his movements before Richmond should draw off the enemy; an army only too anxious to meet us,3 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
1 We have given the composition and numbers of Jackson's and Johnson's divisions. It now remains to add, that Ewell's division,--made up of Taylor's brigade (6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Louisiana regiments), and Wheat's battalion of Trimble's brigade (21st North Carolina, 21st Georgia, 15th Alabama, 16th Mississippi), and Elzey's (13th Virginia and 1st Maryland); of Courtenay's (6 guns) and Brockenbrough's (4 guns) batteries, and of the Second and Sixth Virginia Cavalry under Colonels Munford and Flournoy, numbering (including the cavalry) about 8,000,--increased Jackson's effective force to about 17,000 men, with 11 batteries, containing 48 guns. “See Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861--1862.”
2 In infantry: Donelly's (first) brigade-46th Pennsylvania, 28th New York, 5th Connecticut--numbered 1,700 ; Gordon's (third) brigade--2d Massachusetts (27 officers, 580 enlisted men), 3d Wisconsin (24 officers, 550 enlisted men), 27th Indiana (20 officers, 431 enlisted men), 29th Pennsylvania (17 officers, 452 enlisted men)--numbered 2,101 ; 10th Maine, 856. In cavalry: under Colonel Broadhead there was part of the 1st Michigan; under General Hatch, part of 1st Vermont, part of 5th New York, 5 companies 1st Maryland, 5 companies 8th New York,total 1,500. In artillery: Best's Battery, 6 guns; Cothran's Battery, 6; Hampton's Battery, 4,--total 16 guns and 250 men. See Banks's Report, “Rebellion Record,” vol. v.
3 “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.
James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.
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