The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-04-16
CHAPTER Ky.

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init when u Federal ARMY under Banks
vas sent into the valley. No onc sup
posed jackson had recovered from his
ieteat when he suddenly moved an army
ot II, 600 men down 20 New Market,
Yossed tine shenandoah river aud the
mountain range to the east and vas IN
Tho Luray valley before an alarm was
raised. There was u Federal force STA
toned at Front ROYAL, and he was NOV
INK to atta& it.
An army in the march is q monster
serpent on the move. Far in advance
are cavalry scouts. Then follows a body
II troopers. After thar comes the ad-
vance guard Of infantry. Then artil-
lery, more infantry, more artillery, and
finally the wagon train. The highway
is packed with . living, moving mass
for miles and miles. Infantry and cav
airy overflow into the adjacent fields IN
the right and Left. Where there is =
bend in the road they cur across it,
Horses fall lame or sick aud are aban-
doueJ. Wagons break down and ara
urloaded and sec On fire. GauS and
caisscns SET mixed or upset N the
bitches, and a hundred men lend their
aid. Sorv footed men stagger and limp
and finally tht5w themselves down ana
declare they can 80 70 farther, Here
and there q mU:kec IS accidentally dis
charged. followed by 4 shrek and 4
fall, and half an hour later the victim
fills q grave by the roadside. The mass
advances Z quarter OF 4 mile and balts.
Another quarter Ct q mile and another
halI. Only in the case Of a single Tegi-
meur is thsre freedom TO step out aud
march 81 the rate Of three or four miles
"a hoUr.
The trail Of q marching army, even
iuIa country Of friends. is d trail Of ruin
and dssola-iou. Every soldier is an Gu
gins Of destruction. He has q feeling
that he must G.solase and destroy.
Trees are t5ilsd and fences pulled down
l. repair the roads, gardens are Ge-
spoiled, crops gre trampled under foot,
iruit trees denuIed Of their branches,
stacks and barns fired by accident or
design. L IS as if q fierce cyclone had
passed over the country, followed by 4
plague.
So JlcEsyas army swept forward 10
Front Royal. lis command outnum-
tered the Federal to.e= four 90 0Ee, ard
his presence was nc. inspected until his
artillery began to thunder. The Fed
eral commander soon discovered the SIT
nation, Lui Ia did not retreat without
fight. He gathered his handful OF
men, p-ad them IT, cover the town.
and tor .u hour they held Jackson at
bay. I- was only when they were al
most surrounded that they gave way
and sought shelter in the passes Of the
mountain. jackson paused only long
e.o-ch to burn such Federal STOKES as
be t.glt not haIIiiT carry away and
then swept aJwI tie LJray, ben. &c. tJe
l-ic, AID a-2r Qay was before Ninches-
ter. Flo attacked and recaptusad Tie
town and drove every Federal to the
Potomac and across iJ before he halted
again.
Then the Federal government glaaped
the situation. and Three aitrral5 armies
vere dispatched to close liz on Jackson
and DESTROY him.. The battles Of Cross
Eaya and Port Republic followed, and
jackson teiI back q, Join Ice aud take
part IN Cla uac..y which was to sweep
AcC4li2u from the peninsula, The
Shenandoah and tho L1say were now in
possession Of the aderais, TO be held
till the cia. Of tho war, bat only with
desperate hsl.iag s5 intervals.
And now ,.g gallant Custer, with bis
command. reached ,ao Shenandoah with
TIE array If Ce-uplc'oa-a Young man,
fresh tron West Point, on whom the
Volunteer o!l1af5 looked with distrust,
Int only waiting TO prove his worth.
Custer G,l.nsod 10 Michigan. His arsJ
command was The F.rs,. Filth. Sixth
ana Sercath cavalry regiments Of that
state, known as tao Michigan cGyalry
brigade. While his fame was national,
While bis aad death years after the war
in ,hat terrible massacre touched the
heart Of every American. Il is in Michi-
gan more than anywhere else that his
memory Il revercIctd. It viii live
there until every soldier ard soldiers
son and grandacn aleels beneath the
sod. Tho plains Of northern Virginia
were given up 10 fierce battles between
Infantry the valleys 70 desperate charges
and bloody conflicts between the oppos-
ing cavalry forces.
Jackson had looked his last upon the
Shenandoah. lie was TO become Lees
right arm and fight elsewhere until his
fall in the darkness on tho bush lined
highway ut Charlottesville. Another
took his place. and the dead Ashby was
replaced by Stuart TO lead the cavalry.
Let us go back to Royal Konton. We
left him just as Rea6a Parker had been
made prisoner hy a Federal scouting
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