- 04 Jan 2020 14:44
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January 4, Saturday
General Jackson’s militia at Bath, Virginia, tries again to get around the west side of Warm Spring Mountain, but the waiting Federals take them by surprise and send them scampering. General Loring’s brigade moving toward Bath stops half a mile from the town when enemy troops are seen on the mountain. With the morning and early afternoon wasted, a disgusted Jackson sends his cavalry galloping into town under one of his staff officers, and follows close behind. They find the town empty, the Federal infantry peaceably departed over the mountain to the west to Romney or northward across the Potomac to Hancock, Maryland. By the time Jackson reaches the Potomac in pursuit darkness is falling and he can do no more than fire a few shells at Hancock from the two guns he has managed to bring up.
There are other skirmishes in the soon-to-be-state at Slane’s Cross Roads, Great Cacapon Bridge, Sir John’s Run, and Alpine Depot.
President Lincoln, as essentially temporary Commander-in-Chief, with McClellan still ill, inquires of General Buell in Kentucky as to the progress of his much desired movement toward and into east Tennessee. Buell somewhat doubts the wisdom of the move, and at times appears to neglect it.
General Jackson’s militia at Bath, Virginia, tries again to get around the west side of Warm Spring Mountain, but the waiting Federals take them by surprise and send them scampering. General Loring’s brigade moving toward Bath stops half a mile from the town when enemy troops are seen on the mountain. With the morning and early afternoon wasted, a disgusted Jackson sends his cavalry galloping into town under one of his staff officers, and follows close behind. They find the town empty, the Federal infantry peaceably departed over the mountain to the west to Romney or northward across the Potomac to Hancock, Maryland. By the time Jackson reaches the Potomac in pursuit darkness is falling and he can do no more than fire a few shells at Hancock from the two guns he has managed to bring up.
There are other skirmishes in the soon-to-be-state at Slane’s Cross Roads, Great Cacapon Bridge, Sir John’s Run, and Alpine Depot.
President Lincoln, as essentially temporary Commander-in-Chief, with McClellan still ill, inquires of General Buell in Kentucky as to the progress of his much desired movement toward and into east Tennessee. Buell somewhat doubts the wisdom of the move, and at times appears to neglect it.
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—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke