. Life and campaigns of Thomas J. Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson) . ed roadfrom this village to Winchester leads by a course of eighteenmiles, across both branches of the river, just above their union,and through a country of gentle hills, farms, and woodlands,converging towards the great Yalley Turnpike as it approachesthe town. When Shields evacuated New Market, Colonel Ashby advancedhis quarters to it, and extended his pickets to the neighborhoodof Strasbourg, where he closed the whole breadth of the greatValley, there much contracted, by a cordon of sentries. Everymovement above w
. Life and campaigns of Thomas J. Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson) . ed roadfrom this village to Winchester leads by a course of eighteenmiles, across both branches of the river, just above their union,and through a country of gentle hills, farms, and woodlands,converging towards the great Yalley Turnpike as it approachesthe town. When Shields evacuated New Market, Colonel Ashby advancedhis quarters to it, and extended his pickets to the neighborhoodof Strasbourg, where he closed the whole breadth of the greatValley, there much contracted, by a cordon of sentries. Everymovement above was thus screened effectually from the observa-tion of General Banlis. General Jackson, leaving Mossy CreekMonday, the 19th of May, proceeded by two marches, to theneighborhood of New Market. He there met the line brigadeof General Richard Taylor, which had marched from Elk Runvalley by the Western side of the Masanuttin Mountain. OnWednesday, the 21st he crossed the New Market Gap, and inthe neighborhood of Luray, completed his union with the VALLEV OF THE SHENANDOAH. 363. VALLEY OP THE SHENANDOAH. 364 LIFE OF JACKSON. remainder of General Swells forces. His army now containedabout sixteen thousand effective men, with forty field guns. Itwas composed of Ms own division, embracmg the brigades ofWinder, Campbell, and Taliaferro, of General E wells division,which included the brigades of Taylor, Trimble, Elzcy, andStewart, and the cavalry regiments of Ashby, Munford, andFlournoy, with eight batteries of artillery. At Mossy Creek, hehad been met by Brigadier-General George H. Stewart, a nativeof Maryland, whom the Confederate Government had just com-missioned, and charged with the task of assembling all thesoldiers from that State into one Coiys, to be called The Mary-land Line. To begin this work. General Jackson at onceassigned to his command the First Maryland regiment ofColonel Bradley T. Johnson, and the Brockenborough Battery,which was manned chiefly by citizen
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