Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign by Jonathan A Noyalas

Author:Jonathan A Noyalas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Ashby’s charge at Middletown, May 24, 1862. From A History of the Laurel Brigade, 1907.

While Hatch’s cavalry succumbed to the Confederate onslaught, Abert and Collis still stood near the Cedar Creek bridge awaiting orders to fire it. Collis could clearly see the troopers’ fate and now knew that he was cut off from the main body of Banks’s army.290 Collis also saw the 9th Louisiana marching down Main Street. Like Hatch, Collis realized that he would have to attempt to fight his way out of Middletown. Collis moved his small command—about 150 men—to the cover of a stone wall on the east side of the Valley Pike, south of the village. There Collis’s Zouaves d’Afrique delivered well-aimed volleys into their Louisiana counterparts. The Louisianans returned fire and “gave the Zouaves a volley which made their stone breastworks literally shake.”291 Collis soon abandoned his position and fell back to Hupp’s Hill, just north of Strasburg.292 As Collis’s command headed south, Abert finally set fire to the bridge. The Confederates halted their pursuit at Cedar Creek and turned north to focus on Banks’s main force, which had escaped to Winchester.

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