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The Evansville Daily Journal
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
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General Schenck led a small force of about 1,800 men on a 70-mile march from Franklin, Va., to relieve General Milroy's 4,500 troops, who faced defeat by 14,000 Confederates under Johnson and Jackson. Schenck's attack allowed a nighttime retreat with Milroy's men intact, hailed by General Fremont as a brilliant achievement.
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An extract from a private letter written from Franklin, Va., to a friend in Cincinnati, says:
General Fremont pronounces this one of the most brilliant and successful achievements of the war. With a mere handful of men, not over 1,800, all told, with bridges burned and boats destroyed, without adequate transportation, and no forage but what could be gathered on the way, he marched seventy miles to the relief of Milroy, who, with only 4,500 men, was about being defeated by Johnson and Jackson, with an army of 14,000. General Schenck arrived in time, and by making a furious attack upon the approaching column of the enemy, so startled and stunned them, that he was able to fall back in the night, and fetch off Milroy and his men. Schenck only needs the accidental accuracy of a rebel bullet to make him a Major-General or immortal.
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Franklin, Va.
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schenck's force relieved milroy and retreated safely at night; no specific casualties mentioned.
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With 1,800 men, bridges burned, boats destroyed, inadequate transportation, and limited forage, General Schenck marched 70 miles to relieve Milroy's 4,500 men facing defeat by 14,000 under Johnson and Jackson. Schenck attacked the enemy column, startling them, and retreated with Milroy's forces.