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forces. General Banks, as has been said, was at Strasburg. At Front Royal, twelve miles in advance, Colonel Kenley was stationed, with a MThis was forty-eight hours after the first news of the attack on Front Royal. It was a march of fifty-three miles, thirty-five of which wereeeded. When news of the attack on Colonel Kenley's command at Front Royal, on the 23d, reached General Geary, who was at Rectortown with as, alarmed by exaggerated reports of the fate of the regiment at Front Royal, burnt their tents and destroyed a quantity of arms. The contagng that twenty thousand of McDowell's forces were moving back to Front Royal, that one more of his brigades was ordered to Harper's Ferry thrfor the defence of the capital. He had pointed out Manassas and Front Royal as points forming a good advanced line, and had ordered Banks tortune never offers a second time! McDowell's withdrawal towards Front Royal was, as General McClellan observes in his Report, a serious and