. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . and reenforcement, it wasnot probable that any large force had been detached for its protection. Gen-eral Stonewall Jacksons habit in the valley had been to make enforcedrequisitions upon the Federal commissaries for his subsistence supplies; andthe tempting opportunity of continuing this policy and rationing his hungrycommand, as weU as inflicting almost irreparable loss upon the enemy, wasnot to be neglected. General Trimble volunteered to e
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . and reenforcement, it wasnot probable that any large force had been detached for its protection. Gen-eral Stonewall Jacksons habit in the valley had been to make enforcedrequisitions upon the Federal commissaries for his subsistence supplies; andthe tempting opportunity of continuing this policy and rationing his hungrycommand, as weU as inflicting almost irreparable loss upon the enemy, wasnot to be neglected. General Trimble volunteered to execute the enter-prise with five hundred men, and his offer was readily accepted; but toincrease the prospect of success, Stuart, with a portion of his cavalry, wasordered to cooperate with him. The enemy were not taken by surprise,and opened with their artillery upon the first intimation of attack, buttheir force was too small ; their cannon were taken at the point of thebayonet, and without the loss of a man killed, and with but fifteen wounded,the immense stores, eight guns, and three hundred prisoners fell into our JACKSONS RAID AROUND ! -y * <,&v- u 1 flfe$ ^.ggtefe
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