Records Related to Augusta County Regiments



From: JAS. SHIELDS, Commanding Division.
June 4, 1862.

Summary:
In June, 1862, Union General Shield's division chased Confederates under Thomas J. Jackson up the Valley. In this dispatch, Shields orders one of his brigade commanders, Col. Carroll, to cut off Jackson's escape at Staunton. He also orders him to destroy railroad equipment.


Col. CARROLL,
Commanding Fourth Brigade:

COLUMBIA BRIDGE,

June 4, 1862.

Our friends have driven the enemy to New Market. He can only escape by Staunton. He has burned his own bridges. The whole of your command is to march to join you. Leave a guard and wagons and caissons at Conrad's and on to Staunton. Destroy cars, railroads, depots, and all facilities for his escape. You must go forward at once with cavalry and guns to save the bridge at Port Republic.

JAS. SHIELDS,
Commanding Division.


Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 12, Serial No. 18, Pages 335, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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