. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . Shields headquart-ers and a similar one on the field. The fact is that GeneralShields fought this battle lying on his back. Every orderhe gave was carried out by General Tyler. There was sharp fighting all through the day. Someheavy assaults were delivered and received from both four oclock the two armies, which had been watch-ing for the opportunity to strike the death blow, bothseemed to think the time had com
. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . Shields headquart-ers and a similar one on the field. The fact is that GeneralShields fought this battle lying on his back. Every orderhe gave was carried out by General Tyler. There was sharp fighting all through the day. Someheavy assaults were delivered and received from both four oclock the two armies, which had been watch-ing for the opportunity to strike the death blow, bothseemed to think the time had come from what all day had been trying to deliver his main force inJacksons rear, and still draw his attention at what hadbeen his front, when the fatal hour came. Tyler came upin the rear, as well as in his front, and crushed the armyof the famous fighter, Sonewall Jackson. General Tylerafterward remarked that the Federal army was three times BATTLE OF KERNSTOWN 95 whipped on this field on that memorahle 23rd of March3862, and the men never knew it. The Confederates retreated, leaving their dead andwounded on the field. Banks returned the next morning,. JOHN CROUCH and pursued the retreating enemy thirty miles to Wood-stock, ceasing the pursuit only when his men were thorough-ly exhausted. The Federal loss in this engagement wasone hundred and three killed, and four hundred and forty-one wounded. The Confederate loss was estimated at fivehundred killed and one thousand wounded. 96 ELWOODS STORIES This repulse was a severe check to Jackson. He fellback, faintly persued by Banks, to Harrisonburg, wherehe remained for three weeks. On the 19th of April hecrossed the south fork of the Shenandoah, thus placinghimself within supporting distance of Johnston. Banks,who was now at Harrisonburg, was ordered to fall backfifty miles to Strasburg, and there fortify himself. The Federal forces in this region were so widely scat-tered as to invite an attack on some one of their se
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