. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . omisedto give Grant great additional trouble, and wliieli caused him,as we have before indicated, to detach some of his troops, andsend them northward for the defence of Washington towardsthe line of the Potomac. When Hunter retreated from L^Tichburg into Western Yir-ginia, the ever-memorable Valley of the Shenandoah was leftopen to the enemy, for raids across our fiontier, into the loyalStates of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The rebel authoritieswere not slow to avail themselves of the opportunity thusafibrded. A considerable force was moved dow
. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . omisedto give Grant great additional trouble, and wliieli caused him,as we have before indicated, to detach some of his troops, andsend them northward for the defence of Washington towardsthe line of the Potomac. When Hunter retreated from L^Tichburg into Western Yir-ginia, the ever-memorable Valley of the Shenandoah was leftopen to the enemy, for raids across our fiontier, into the loyalStates of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The rebel authoritieswere not slow to avail themselves of the opportunity thusafibrded. A considerable force was moved down the Valley,under 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 about twenty-live thousand HOBTUEIIN VW 376 GRAJST AND HIS CAMPAIGNS. Grant was disappointed at this new obstacle to liLs pluns ;but his ready resources did not fail him. He ordered Hunter, who was now in Western Virginia, tomove as rapidly as possible, by river and raihoad, to HarjDersFerry. But Hunters delays were great. The water was lowin the river, and the raihoad was broken in several meet this emergency, troops must be had at once ; there-fore, early in July, the Sixth Corps was taken fiom its lines infront of Petersburg, and sent to cover Washington. TheNineteenth Corps, under General W. H. Emory, which hadbeen ordered from the Gulf as soon as Grant had heard of thefailure of the Red lliver 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, with the remaiuder, subsequently went toWashington. In a mihtary point of view, the enemy
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