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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)
ricken teamsters, intermingled with infantry and artillery; and behind him, volumes of smoke and flame arising from the town, announcing the destruction of that property which the night before might have been removed to a place of safety. At last he seemed to have been convinced of his error, for as he was hurrying along the roadway he turned to one of his staff, with a countenance grave but resolute, as we are informed, and said, It seems we have made a mistake. In a paper published in Harper's Monthly for March, 1867, Mr. Strother, of Virginia, has given his Recollections of a Campaign in Virginia. Strother, who was attached to Banks's staff in the Valley campaign, makes it appear in this paper that he derided the reports of the number of Jackson's army with such effect that it influenced Banks's conduct. Thus Strother endeavors to shield the latter, and relates the following occurrence, when he was riding away from the smoking ruins of Strasburg to the sound of the cannon of
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 8: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
advanced the more withering the fire became. At last, with a loss of eighty killed and wounded out of the two hundred and sixty-seven that charged across the field, they fell back into the woods, to be re-formed and again to advance, as will hereafter appear. While this attack was in progress, Banks threw forward his two brigades on the left of the Culpeper road. Simultaneously with Crawford's advance, Geary in centre and Prince on left moved against the enemy with vigor. Strother, in Harper's Monthly for August, 1871. Official Record, series i vol. XII. part II. p. 157; report of General Augur. Prince moved his infantry against the right and front of Early's line, but without effect. Early stood like a rampart, says the Southern historian, and hurled back all efforts made against him. Geary's advance through the cornfield, with his right along the Culpeper road, uniting with the regiments assaulting across the wheat-field, forced back the enemy's line in their front, and thr
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 10: General Banks's orders and responsibility. (search)
id artillery firing, that an engagement was going on, or might be brought on. What excuse, then, is left for Banks? We have seen what he has to offer, which is all there is to offer; and it only adds to our heavy grief (without justifying him), that either to add the warrior's to the politician's fame, or to retrieve at Cedar Mountain what, in his ignorance, Banks fancied he had lost at Winchester, such sacrifices should have been made. A writer, once on Banks's staff, Strother: in Harper's Monthly for August, 1867. echoes him in these words: There was another motive underlying and probably controlling Banks's judgment: neither he nor the troops under his command were at all satisfied with the verdict of an exacting and ungenerous public upon the actions in the valley of the Shenandoah; they felt the injustice of that judgment, which, without regard to circumstances or contingencies, accepted success as the only test of merit, and were burning for an opportunity to wipe away