. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . tachments into two small brigades. At sunrise of the 4th General Jones and staffrode up, having traveled from Staunton duringthe night. An hour or two later Brigadier-GeneralJ. C. Vaughn came up with less than one thousandof his Tennessee brigade of cavalry. The reservesof Augusta and Rockingham counties had assem-bled to the number of five or six hundred. We thushad, of all sorts of troops, veterans and militia,something less than 4500 men. ■& Of artillery,we had McClanahans six
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . tachments into two small brigades. At sunrise of the 4th General Jones and staffrode up, having traveled from Staunton duringthe night. An hour or two later Brigadier-GeneralJ. C. Vaughn came up with less than one thousandof his Tennessee brigade of cavalry. The reservesof Augusta and Rockingham counties had assem-bled to the number of five or six hundred. We thushad, of all sorts of troops, veterans and militia,something less than 4500 men. ■& Of artillery,we had McClanahans six guns, and an improvisedbattery of six guns from Staunton, manned by acompany of reserves under Captain J. C. Marquis. On comparing dates of commission with Jonesand Vaughn they were both found to be my , holding the oldest commission, took com-mand. On the 5th our forces were concentratedabout half a mile north-east of the village of Pied-mont. Without going into details it suffices to say 6th: Went into the flght yesterday with an aggregateof 5600.— EDITOES. 486 THE BATTLE OF NEW MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE A PHOTOGRAPH. General Crook served in West Virginia and the Shen-andoah Valley from February, 1864, till February, 18C5,being for part of this time in command of the Depart-ment of West Virginia. now that battle was joined. After repelling twoassaults, his left wing was doubled up by a flankattack, Jones was killed, and we were disastrouslybeaten. Our loss was not less than 1500 men. Our defeat opened the way to Hunter to effect ajunction with Crook and Averell at Staunton onthe 6th. Their combined forces numbered about18,000 men of all arms. Vaughn and I fell backin good order, and on the 6th occupied Waynes-boro, eleven miles east of Staunton, and the neigh-boring (Rockfish) gap in the Blue Ridge, where theChesapeake and Ohio Railroad passes through themountain. Hunter remained two or three days atStaunton resting his troops and burning both
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