History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information . - 64 - Samuel Jones, a West Point graduate, who had become a MajorGeneral in the Confederate service. General Imboden occupied the Cacapon Valley to the north-west of Winchester with a force of infantry, cavalry and artillery,estimated at 1500 men. These were the only forces of the ene-. GENERAL R. H. MILROY. my Milroy was in danger of being assailed by for several monthsof 1863. The object of holding Winchester was to observe and keep incheck t
History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information . - 64 - Samuel Jones, a West Point graduate, who had become a MajorGeneral in the Confederate service. General Imboden occupied the Cacapon Valley to the north-west of Winchester with a force of infantry, cavalry and artillery,estimated at 1500 men. These were the only forces of the ene-. GENERAL R. H. MILROY. my Milroy was in danger of being assailed by for several monthsof 1863. The object of holding Winchester was to observe and keep incheck the Confederates in the Valley, and to protect the Balti-more and Ohio railroad against depredations. In March Milroy stationed the 3rd Brigade of his division. - 65 - composed of the 6th Maryland, the 67th Pennsylvania, 1st NewYork Cavalry and a battery, at Berryville, under command ofCol. McReynolds, who was given instructions to watch thepasses of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the fords across the Shen-andoah River and to keep open communications with HarpersFerry. Some months before this, the chief command of the Unionarmies had been given to General Halleck, an officer who hadcommanded all the forces in the West, and had thus caughtsome reflected glory from the achievements of Grant and gave orders to Milroy to undertake no offensive operationsin force, but to occupy Winchester as a lookout, and to retainMcReynolds at B
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