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FORCING FOX’S GAP AND TURNER’S GAP.
BY JACOB IX COX, MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. V.
O N the 5th of September, 1862, the Kanawha Division was ordered byMcClellan to report to General Burnside, commanding the Right Wingof the Army of the Potomac. ,1 We left Upton’s Hill early on the morning of the6th, crossed the river, and marched through Wasliington to Leesboro, Maryland ,where the First Corps (Hooker’s) and the Ninth Corps | (Burnside’s, underReno ), constituting the right wing, were assembling. Our formal assignmentto the Ninth Corps was made a day or two later. On the 8th, the divisionwas ordered to take the advance and marched to Brookville; on the 9th toGoshen; on the 11th to Ridgeville, and on the 12th, shortly after noon, toFrederick City , being the first to enter that place, and driving out the Con-federate rear-guard of cavalry under General Wade Hampton. The insig-nificant skirmish which occurred there had a considerable influence upon thebattle of the 14th, in an indirect way. The enemy’s cavalry had been drivenfrom the banks of the Monocacy River and retired into the town. The division,consisting of two brigades (Moor’s and Scammon’s), had crossed at the stonebridge on the National road, and Moor’s, deployed on both sides of the turn-pike, advanced upon the city. Colonel Moor himself, with a troop of cavalryand a single cannon, was in the road. An impertinent criticism upon thespeed of his movement, volunteered by a young staff-officer from corps head-
] For an account of the transfer of the Kanawha paign Hooker was assigned to McDowell’s, whichDivision from West Virginia to the Potomac, see was sometimes called First and sometimes Third,p. 281. The division was not engaged in the second Mansfield was assigned to Banks ’s. The properbattle of Bull Run; hut two regiments of Seam- designations after the consolidation of the armiesinon’s brigade were under fire at Bull Run Bridge, were First and Twelfth. Reno had been assignednear Union Mills, August 27th.— Editors. to the First, but McClellan got authority to change
Confusion in the numbers of the First and it, and gave that corps to Hooker, sending RenoTwelfth Corps is found in the records and corre- back to the Ninth (“Official Records,” XIX., Pt.spondence. In the Army of Virginia, Sigel’s corps II., pp. 197, 198, 279, 349).— J. D. C.(Eleventh) had been designated as First, Banks ’s |The Ninth Corps, created July 22d, 1862, was(Twelfth) had been Second, and McDowell’s composed of the command that Burnside brought(First) had been Third. In the Maryland cam- from North Carolina. — Editors.
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