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was sent across the river with a request for Lander to surrender; Jackson warned that he would shell and then capture the town if Lander refused. Upon meeting Lander, Ashby was instructed to tell
Jackson to "bombard and be damned" and was given a written rejection of the offer. While Ashby returned
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fell behind schedule; Jackson's train did not move until 16:00. The weather was cold during the march and Loring strongly disagreed with
Jackson's handling of the campaign. The Confederates reached Bath on January 3 and skirmished with Union troops outside the town, but were unable to capture it.
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Jackson's force stuck at Unger's Store until January 13, but the Confederates then advanced to Romney, which was evacuated by the Union soldiers on January 15. Jackson relocated to Winchester with the Stonewall Brigade, while leaving Loring to
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defended warehouses, and two pieces of artillery were positioned on a hill behind the town. The
Confederate cannons opened fire at about 14:00, and a sporadic artillery duel which inflicted no casualties continued until dusk. A Confederate detachment under Colonel
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Hancock. After reaching the vicinity of Hancock with the leading elements of his force, Jackson ordered the Rockbridge artillery to fire on the civilian-filled town, in revenge for Union bombardments of
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determined that 415.16 acres (168.01 ha) may be eligible for listing. About 50 acres (20 ha) of the battlefield are owned through protective stewardship, including tracts owned by the
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hold Romney. Loring complained to the
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Confederate request to surrender on January 5, and that day and the next saw exchanges of artillery fire between the two sides. The Confederates burned a bridge on the
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to either cross the Potomac in Jackson's rear or to send him reinforcements, with which Lander would attack the Confederates directly. Banks had ordered Brigadier General
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ordered Romney evacuated on January 30. Jackson resigned over the affair but was talked into rescinding the resignation by
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773:(2nd ed.). Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin.
752:. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
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465:Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
195:Jackson's Operations Against the B&O Railroad
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1139:Inconclusive battles of the American Civil War
1169:Battles of the American Civil War in Maryland
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811:. Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press.
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474:National Register of Historic Places
387:110th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
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254:Confederate States Secretary of War
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18:Battle of the American Civil War
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965:"Maryland, My Maryland"
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435:Unger's Store, Virginia
354:Shepherdstown, Virginia
283:Confederate States Army
1030:Soldiers and civilians
932:Baltimore Riot of 1861
221:was fought during the
136:Commanders and leaders
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482:National Park Service
419:National Park Service
153:Casualties and losses
1076:Monocacy Battlefield
1071:Loudon Park Cemetery
1046:Antietam Battlefield
996:Surratt House Museum
455:Governor of Virginia
443:Winchester, Virginia
344:Rockbridge Artillery
316:. After writing to
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358:Frederick W. Lander
293:. Between his own
242:Frederick W. Lander
142:Frederick W. Lander
643:on April 25, 2011.
439:Benjamin F. Kelley
407:Nathaniel P. Banks
321:Joseph E. Johnston
272:American Civil War
230:American Civil War
31:American Civil War
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938:Ex parte Merryman
871:Maryland Campaign
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780:978-0-395-74012-5
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396:Big Cacapon River
340:Stonewall Brigade
333:Hancock, Maryland
302:William W. Loring
299:Brigadier General
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279:Stonewall Jackson
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678:Weeks 2009
624:Weeks 2009
492:References
314:Union Army
310:cavalrymen
260:Background
70:1862-01-06
62:1862-01-05
896:Funkstown
881:Boonsboro
637:"Hancock"
906:Monocacy
876:Antietam
484:and the
291:Virginia
78:Location
974:Museums
901:Hancock
864:Battles
798:27 June
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