[9] The Federal commander was granted two hours in which to remove the women and children.
[10] “Any attempt,” Banks reported to McClellan, “to intercept the enemy would have been unsuccessful. . . . It would have resulted in almost certain failure to cut him off, and have brought an exhausted force into his presence to fight him in his stronghold at Winchester. In any case, it promised no positive prospect of success, nor did it exclude large chances of disaster.”—O.R., vol. v, p. 694.
[11] Dabney, vol. i, p. 320.
[12] Dabney, vol. i, p. 321.
[13] Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson.
[14] O.R., vol. v, p. 1053.
[15] Ibid., pp. 1046–8.
[16] O.R., vol. v, p. 1053.
[17] Ibid., pp. 702, 703.
[18] “I have taken special pains,” he writes on January 17, “to obtain information respecting General Banks, but I have not been informed of his having gone east. I will see what can be effected through the Catholic priests at Martinsburg.”—O.R., vol. v, p. 1036.