A History of the Civil War in the United States With a Preliminary View of Its
A History of the Civil War in the United States With a Preliminary View of Its
Samuel Mosheim Smucker
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The largest and most important of these was commanded by General McClellan. After leaving Manassas it was conveyed by transports down the Potomac to Fortress Monroe, and having afterward disembarked below Yorktown, prepared to effect the reduction of that place, and then advance toward the Rebel capital. The second corps under General McDowell pursued a middle line of march, due south, toward the city of Fredericksburg. The third, under General Banks, THE SOUTHERN REBELLION. 313 passing through... Harper's Ferry, proceeded to Winchester, and thence through the valley of the Shenandoah, by Strasburg, Woodstock, New Market, and Harrisonburg, toward Staunton. It was a portion of this force which encountered a large body of Eebels near Winchester, and which, led on by General Shields, gained a decisive victory at that place. The Kebel army which thus came into action near Winchester, was commanded by General T. J. Jackson. On Saturday, March 22d, 1862, some skirmishing took place between Ashby's famous cavalry and the Federal pickets, until four o'clock in the afternoon, when the enemy appeared in larger numbers.
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