. Life and services of Gen. U. S. Grant . sedto give Grant great additional trouble, and which caused him,as we have before indicated, to detach some of his trooi3S, andsend them northward for the defence of Washington towardsthe line of the Potomac. When Hunter retreated from Lynchburg into Western Vir-ginia, the ever-memorable Valley of the Shenandoah was leftopen to the enemy, for raids across our frontier, into the loyalStates of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The rebel authoritieswere not slow to avail themselves of the opportimity thusafforded. A considerable force was moved down the Valley,
. Life and services of Gen. U. S. Grant . sedto give Grant great additional trouble, and which caused him,as we have before indicated, to detach some of his trooi3S, andsend them northward for the defence of Washington towardsthe line of the Potomac. When Hunter retreated from Lynchburg into Western Vir-ginia, the ever-memorable Valley of the Shenandoah was leftopen to the enemy, for raids across our frontier, into the loyalStates of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The rebel authoritieswere not slow to avail themselves of the opportimity thusafforded. A considerable force was moved down the Valley,und(3r General Jubal Early, who had resumed the commandduring the disability of Ewell, with the intention of invadingthe North, opening the way for larger bodies, and perhaps soworking upon the fears of our people, and the authorities atWashington, as to force Grant to abandon the siege of Peters-burg. Earlys force was his own corps, with a portion of thatof Breckinridge, and detachments, making in all from twelveto fifteen thousand NORTHERN PART OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY. 376 GRANT AND HIS CAMPAIGNS. Grant was disappointed at tliis uew obstacle to liis plans;but his ready resources did not fail bim. He ordered Hunter, wbo was now in Western Viiginia, tomove as rapidly as possible, by river and railroad, to HarpersFerry. But Hunters delays were great. The water was lowin the river, and the railroad was broken in several meet this emergency, troops must be had at once ; there-fore, early in July, the Sixth Corps was taken from its lines infront of Petersburg, and sent to cover Washington. TheNineteenth Corps, under General W. H. Emory, v/hich hadbeen ordered fi-om the Gulf as soon as Grant had heard of thofailure of the Red River expedition, had just arrived in Hamp- ■■ton Roads: without disembarking, it was also pushed afterthe Sixth. Ricketts division of the Sixth was sent to Balti-more. Wright, v/ith the remainder, subsequently went toWashington. In a milit
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