Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-20
From the Mountain Department.
GALLANT EXPLOIT OF MILROY AND sCHENCK
Correspondence Of the y. Y. Tribune.

CORRESPONDENCE Of the \. Y. Tribune.
Fp,vK1rx Va. May 10 1850
When StonewaII Jackson was defeated nv
| Shields at Winchester. he Swore a mighty
oath that in less than sixty davs he w0uld
| break M fine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad if
| it cost the lives of 60 600 men. himself in
Guided. Since then. StonewalI has met with
many obstacles. and inst now is being circuu-
vented by Gems. Schenck and Milroy.
| While Mcclellan was held by the army in
| Yorktown, nearly all the rebel forces in Vir
| ginia were concentrated there. When the
| cvacuation became necessary. these armies
were At lihort,- tn salprt other lines of onnro-
tion. and Jaci[sop vos fIrnisbnd with / / 600
of the very hest on hand and told that ho
| corId n,nc,,tn his ,rrc.t 10Th sLo,o ytotod
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'"Ne up al uiiG til"t necessary ~ MAKE 'e re-
sew %' Hi"pie' Ten' 'GIIe,'oN 10 no' 'ie
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an" S0ii'e '"' ',."' ""o Ie''et 'li,'h
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eeeliVu '''il'''lV' me "".ei vas uIee leeV
uecp' thG current IuilouS' ana inc Do'Ioh COW
ered WIN huge stones, over Whlch tne poor
horses stumbled ana wagons Joltcd. 10 mss
the track ellller way was 10 geg mo deep wa
ter' anu s''" Ihree wagons l3SG at one ulhe
the liorSeS were struggling ana KICKING WINE
tle drivers ana st'aruS were Gl1her clihglhg 10
te wagons VI uoliiE ''lei gliuG"EoI " S"lGl
siiore"aru' ne scene Mllicll iasteu through
u"9i was Plclui es4ue anu eNoi'ii's' 1t re-
Suleu' however Do III no Sfe"' loSS' ,-..,
oen 0Vl.GiiIN p'lsi'vu oi, ' %I,e" Ivy oiiu
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As on troo,,s e,ncrged from the ,oroo W." =,
tho nlain If the Town tho Ionr I;nns "a Fi tl
rnhals vnra seen fEng down M road " . .lie
m6untains onnositn rhe scene was o a, VI '',e
oting Tho IittIn ANN, av,,oct,r ~, H.,
,ybInod nv, sunorio. nnr,Io,s 9.d ,,,,, o1 "
ont tbn Ion,y hoiIrs in ,,oa,,, a,,, "'1Ceu
whom tbo doar old da@ a,nearod cbo ,',rU no"
cbcar want NJ, tbo I9onntain siJos w i've, IiVer
omr mon rpsponJod heartily wbiIa fo1l; %'n,t u.
rigbt and Iof tLn artillery rotfIod in -, ~ ~
double onirl, to the strains Of the StareSno oro
oiled Rannar from the band. This ,ras P nn+
without effect The rebel army checked its
march. taxing possession of the monntoin
brow. where Il looked impudently down mon
its proposed victims.
Gems. Scbenck and Milrov agreed that with
their small army and entire lack Of foragn
Mcdowell was not tenable. How to get ont
in the face of a superior force was the oucs-