[Chancellorsville and Gettysburg by Abner Doubleday]@TWC D-Link bookChancellorsville and Gettysburg CHAPTER I 10/15
Early says he sent 108 officers and 3,250 enlisted men as prisoners to Richmond. Johnson, who intercepted the retreat, says he captured 2,300 prisoners, 175 horses, and 11 battle flags. While two-thirds of Ewell's corps were attacking Winchester, the other division under Rodes, preceded by Jenkins' brigade of cavalry, pursued McReynolds' wagon train to Martinsburg, arriving there late in the afternoon of the 14th.
The town was held as an outlying post of Harper's Ferry by a small detachment of all arms under Colonel Tyler, a subordinate of General Tyler, who formed his men outside of the place and resisted Rodes' attack until night, when his infantry escaped to Shepherdstown, and his artillery and cavalry to Williamsport.
In carrying out these movements, however, he lost five guns and five caissons.
He passed the river and rejoined the main body at Harper's Ferry.
The latter place is wholly indefensible against an enemy holding the hills around it.
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