The alarm at Washington had caused McDowell's corps to be withdrawn from the upper Rappahannock to Fredericksburg. Jackson, anxious to take advantage of the then divided condition of the enemy, sent to Richmond for reënforcements, but our condition there did not enable us to furnish any, except the division of Ewell, which had been left near Gordonsville in observation of McDowell, now by his withdrawal made disposable, and the brigade of Edward Johnson, which confronted Schenck and Milroy near to Staunton. Jackson, who, when he could not get what he wanted, did the best he could with what he had, called Ewell to his aid, left him to hold Banks in check, and marched to unite with Johnson; the combined forces attacked Milroy and Schenck, who, after a severe conflict, retreated in the night to join Fremont. Jackson then returned toward Harrisonburg, having ordered Ewell to join him for an attack on Banks, who in the mean time had retreated toward Winchester, where Jackson attacked and defeated him, inflicting great loss, drove him across the Potomac, and, as has been represented, filled the authorities at Washington with such dread of its capture as to disturb the previously devised plans against Richmond, and led to the operations which have already been described, and brought into full play Jackson's military genius. In all these operations there conspicuously appears the self-abnegation of a devoted patriot. He was not seeking by great victories to acquire fame for himself; but, always alive to the necessities and dangers elsewhere, he heroically strove to do what was possible for the general benefit of the cause he maintained. His whole heart was his country's, and his whole country's heart was his.
[Footnote 33: "History of the Civil War in America," Comte de Paris, vol. ii, pp. 32-34.]
[Footnote 34: "Campaign on the Peninsula," Prince de Joinville, 1862.]
[Footnote 35: Court-Martial of General McDowell, Washington, December 10, 1862.]
[Footnote 36: "Report on the Conduct of the War," Part I, p. 322.]
[Footnote 37: Ibid., p. 337.]
[Footnote 38: "Four Years with General Lee," by Walter H. Taylor, p. 50.]
[Footnote 39: "Destruction and Reconstruction" pp. 75, 76.]
[Footnote 40: "Stonewall Jackson," military biography by John Esten
Cooke, p. 194.]