. Four years in the Stonewall Brigade [electronic resource] . there all day. skirmishing some with them, buthad no general engagement. At dark we re-tired from their front, went into camp, cookedrations, and the next morning started marched east until near Staunton, when weturned down the valley, marching north, pass-ing by Stribling Springs, Mt. Solon, Bridge-water and Dayton, on to Harrisonburg; wherewe were ordered to pile away our knapsacks inthe court house. We knew there was somegame on hand then, for when Gen. Jacksonordered knapsacks to be left behind he meantbusiness. We march
. Four years in the Stonewall Brigade [electronic resource] . there all day. skirmishing some with them, buthad no general engagement. At dark we re-tired from their front, went into camp, cookedrations, and the next morning started marched east until near Staunton, when weturned down the valley, marching north, pass-ing by Stribling Springs, Mt. Solon, Bridge-water and Dayton, on to Harrisonburg; wherewe were ordered to pile away our knapsacks inthe court house. We knew there was somegame on hand then, for when Gen. Jacksonordered knapsacks to be left behind he meantbusiness. We marched on at a quick march down thevalley to Xcwmarket where we turned east,crossed the Mountain and over intothe Page Valley, on down the Page Valley untilwe arrived at Front Royal. Now Gen. Banks, of commissary fame, had aconsiderable army at Front Royal and Strasburg,and we were re-inforced by Gen. Ewells divis-. ( T. J. () . THE STONEWALL BRIGADE. 99 ion. Our advance surprised the enemy at bothplaces and got in between the two armies. Wehad some sharp fighting for a while, but we gotthem cut off, and captured a great many, be-sides wagons, artillery, etc., and the route be-came general. The roads to Winchester, a dis-tance of eighteen miles, showed a wreck of allkinds of baggage and commissary stores. Wefollowed the retreating army all night. Theirrear guard would sometimes take advantage ofthe darknessand lay in ambush for us and whenwe came up pour a volley into us; but we wouldsoon out-flank them and move on. My companyand Company F were in the advance, and wehad several men wounded. When we got to Winchester, at daylight,they had made another stand in the fortificationsaround the town and we had to forma line around them and charge. Our brigadedid not get engaged in this fight, but we lay inline of battle on a hillside and were exposed toa severe shelling from the
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