The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . ambush, and routed itwith a loss of 50 killed and woundedand 37 prisoners. Col. Shawl re-turned to Winchester, and reportedno force on that road which had notbeen there for months. On the Front Royal road, the 12thPennsylvania cavalry, Moss,400 strong, went only to
The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . ambush, and routed itwith a loss of 50 killed and woundedand 37 prisoners. Col. Shawl re-turned to Winchester, and reportedno force on that road which had notbeen there for months. On the Front Royal road, the 12thPennsylvania cavalry, Moss,400 strong, went only to Cedarville,12 miles, and returned, reportingthat they had been sto23ped by a largeRebel force; but Milroy refused tocredit the story ; insisting that theyhad been too easily frightened, andthat, if any such force could be there,he should have heard of its approachfrom Hooker or Halleck; neverthe-less, he advised McReynolds to looksharf). l^ext morning, however, hispatrols on the Front Royal road re-ported the enemy advancing in force;whereupon, Milroy signaled McRey-nolds to join him, while he sent outa considerable force on either road tolearn what was brewing. They had not far to go. Col. Ely,on the Front Royal road, was stop-ped barely a mile from Winchester, ?^ June 13. EWELL TAKES WINCnESTER FROM MILROY. 371. WINCHESTER AXD VICINITY. by a Eebel battery, and fell back,after a sliglit skirmish, unpursued;while General Elliott, on the Stras-burg road, advanced a very little far-ther, and was halted by observingthe enemy in force on his left—thatis, on the Front Royal road. Heresome cannon-balls were exchanged;when onr men fell back to Applepieridge, that next the city; wheremore skirmishing beguiled the timetill dark, when a prisoner was takenwho rather astonished Milroy bythe information that he belonged toEwelFs (formerly Stonewall Jack-sons) corps, and that Longstreets alsowas just at hand—the two number-ing about 50,000 men. Col. McReynolds, with his brigade,arrived f
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