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APRIL 22-MAY 16, 1863.--Operations in the Shenandoah Valley, Va.
No. 5.--Itinerary of the Second Division, Eighth Army Corps, April 4-May 28.(*)…..with loss of 6 killed, 7 wounded, and 14 missing, of Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. At Harper's Mills, Va., captured a rebel lieutenant and six privates. Distance marched during expedition--by infantry, 101 miles; cavalry, 150 miles.
April 4.--Cavalry pickets on the Millwood road captured 2 of Twelfth Virginia (rebel) Cavalry. They were dismounted and without arms, having left everything on the east side of the Shenandoah River.
April 8.--Cavalry picket on the Millwood road was attacked about 10 p.m., and 2 of the men captured, 1 of whom was severely wounded in the arm. Five horses were taken. The men were subsequently released.
April 9.--It was rumored that Berryville would be attacked. A section of artillery arrived from Winchester as re-enforcement.
April 10.--At 3 a.m. whole force under arms.
April 13.--Scouting party to Snicker's Ferry, consisting of 1 lieutenant and 10 men, were attacked by 37 rebel cavalry (dismounted), formed in ambuscade, under Lieutenant [William R.] Smith, Fourth Virginia (rebel) Cavalry. One of our men, Charles Young, of Company F, was killed, and 1 taken; since released. Several horses were wounded, but none rendered unserviceable.
April 29.—Lieutenant Wyckoff, First New York Cavalry, Lieutenants Powell and Means, and 40 men of the Twelfth [West] Virginia Infantry, crossed the Shenandoah by twos, in a skiff at midnight, and captured the chief "Leopold" and 6 of his confederates.
April 27.--The two sections of Battery B, First [West] Virginia Light Artillery, were relieved by Captain Alexander's Independent Battery, Baltimore Light Artillery.
May 1.--The Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry and (May 7 and 9) the entire Second Brigade (except detachments of the First and Third lWest] Virginia Cavalry and Battery L, Fifth U.S. Artillery), were ordered by Major-General Schenck to r-enforce General Kelley in Western Virginia, and temporarily detached from the division.
May 21.--The Eighty seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry returned to the division; the Ninth, Tenth, and Twelfth [West] Virginia Infantry Regiments are still in Western Virginia. The Ninth and Tenth Regiments have been permanently detached by order of General Schenck. Battery B, First [West] Virginia Artillery, has also been detached.
May 4.--Colonel Galligher, with the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and two pieces of Battery D, First [West] Virginia Artillery, with a detachment of First New York Cavalry, went on scout to Moorefield, via Wardensville. Returned to Winchester, Va., via Romney, May 9.
May 5.--Brigadier-General Elliott, with One hundred and tenth, One hundred and twenty-second, and One hundred and twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry and Tenth [West] Virginia Infantry, went on scout up the Valley, proceeding as far as New Market, Va., and returned to Winchester May 9. Captured 9 prisoners and lost 5 men of Company G, One hundred and twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, captured near Edenburg.
May 15.--Capt.James R. Utt, Third [West] Virginia Cavalry, with Companies D and E, Third West Virginia Cavalry, and a detachment of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, went on scout to Front Royal, and the next day attacked and routed a party of rebel cavalry at Piedmont, Va., recapturing 55 prisoners of the Second Maryland Cavalry. Captain Ult, of Third [West.] Virginia Cavalry, and Sergeant Graham, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, were killed in the charge.
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Correspondence, Orders, And Returns Relating To Operations In Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, And Pennsylvania, From January 26 To June 2, 1863.
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.--#19BALTIMORE,
May 17, 1863--12.15 p.m.
Brig. Gen. W. H. MORRIS, Harper's Ferry, Va.:
The detachment of Third Virginia and Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry sent by General Milroy have recaptured all of Summers' men and their horses, and taken 40 of the rebels, with their horses. This puts the saddle on the other horse. Two rebels killed, losing on our part Captain Utt and a sergeant. The engagement was at Piedmont Station, Fauquier County. The First New York Cavalry arrived afterward, and continued the pursuit.
ROBT. C. SCHENCK,
Major-General, Commanding.BALTIMORE,
May 17, 1863.
Major-General MILROY, Winchester, Va.:Your detachments of Thirteenth Pennsylvania and [Third] Virginia Cavalry have done most handsomely. The general commanding desires you to thank them for their promptness, energy, and gallantry.
ROBT. C. SCHENCK,
Major-General, Commanding.BALTIMORE,
May 17 1863Brig. Gen. E. P. SCAMMON, Charleston, W. Va.:
A gunboat, the Naumkeag, was sent at my request up the Kanawha Has it reached you at Charleston?
ROBT. C. SCHENCK,
Major-General, Commanding.GENERAL ORDERS, No. 33.
HDQRS. MID. DEPT., EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
Baltimore, Md., May 17 1863The following-named staff officers having been assigned to this army corps, have reported for duty:
Col. Amos B. Jones, additional aide-de-camp (temporarily); Lieut. Col. Alexander Bliss, captain and assistant quartermaster, as quartermaster of the Eighth Army Corps, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. They will respectively be recognized and obeyed accordingly.
By command of Major-General Schenck:WM. H. CHESEBROUGH,
Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
Camp near Falmouth, Va., May 18, 1863In the second paragraph of General Orders, No 53, of the 12th instant, from these headquarters, for General Orders, Nos. 10 and 30, please read General Orders, Nos. 10 and 39.
By command of Major-General Hooker:
S. WILLIAMS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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