. History of the campaign of Gen. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia : From November 4, 1861, to June 17, 1862. amount, as is apparent from the strength of the commands Ewell says the three brigades of Trimble, Elzey, and Steuart numbered lessthan 5000 on June 8, at Cross Keys. Winder reports his brigade as 1313 rankand file, and adding officers it did not exceed 1450. Pattons (Campbells) bri-gade had about 800 men present (the Twenty-first Virginia having gone off asan escort to prisoners). There were besides these but Taylors (the strongestin the army
. History of the campaign of Gen. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia : From November 4, 1861, to June 17, 1862. amount, as is apparent from the strength of the commands Ewell says the three brigades of Trimble, Elzey, and Steuart numbered lessthan 5000 on June 8, at Cross Keys. Winder reports his brigade as 1313 rankand file, and adding officers it did not exceed 1450. Pattons (Campbells) bri-gade had about 800 men present (the Twenty-first Virginia having gone off asan escort to prisoners). There were besides these but Taylors (the strongestin the army) and Taliaferros. Putting Taylors four and one-half regiments at2500 effectives and Taliaferros three regiments at 1200, we have a total infantryforce of about 11,000. Add 1000 for cavalry and 500 or 600 for artillery, andwe see that Jacksons strength for battle was short of 13,000. The only addi-tion made to Jacksons force between 23d May and 8th June was Carringtonsbattery (four guns). ^ Ed. Johnsons brigade had been incorporated into Ewells division, theTwelfth Georgia, Twenty-fifth and Thirty-first Virginia having been assigned. is: O S £ CROSS KEYS AND PORT REPUBLIC. I47 Harrisonburg, and Gen. Winders^ division on the heights above thebridge along the river. Here artillery was at hand to command thetown and bridge and plain by which Shields must approach. Fre-mont was well closed up, and his vigorous pursuit of the last fewdays indicated a prompt attack without waiting for the co-operationof Shields. The latter was not so well up as Fremont, but his ad-vance under Col. Carroll came within six miles of Port Republic onSaturday evening, June 7. Jackson thus took a position where he might receive the attack ofFremont, while it was in the power of a small part of his force tohold Shields in check. His position, if the latter attempted to attackin aid of Fremont, was impregnable. Gen. Tyler thought it one todefy an army of fifty thousand (50,000) men. ^ Defeat by Fremontwould
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