HARRISONBURG, Engagement Near. Harrisonburg, Va., on the Great Valley Turn pike, 22 miles north of Staunton, and 122 miles northwest of Richmond, was the scene of many stirring events in the Civil War. The place was occupied by General Banks late in April 1862, and abandoned when Jackson forced Banks down the valley in May. When Jackson in turn was forced up the valley by the com bined armies of McDowell and Fremont, he abandoned the main valley, moving from Har risonburg to Cross Keys and Port Republic, his rear-guard, two regiments of Virginia cav alry, under Gen. Turner Ashby, Milting about two miles southeast of Harrisonburg. On 6 June 1862 Colonel Wyndham, with the First New Jersey Cavalry and a battalion of the Fourth New York, moving from Harrisonburg, attacked Ashby and was defeated and followed to within one mile of the town, with the loss of several men killed and wounded, and about 60 taken prisoners, including Wyndham him self. General Bayard then pushed forward with cavalry and infantry and Ashby fell back and called for infantry support. Jackson sent
him Stuart's brigade — First Maryland, Forty fourth, Fifty-second and Fifty-eighth Virginia. A few miles beyond Harrisonburg Bayard at tacked with the Pennsylvania uBucktails)) under command of Lieut.-Col. T. L. Kane, and in the engagement Ashby was killed, and Kane was wounded and captured. While this was happening on the right, the Sixteenth Ohio In fantry and First Pennsylvania Cavalry, on the left, drove in the Confederate skirmish-line, without loss on either side. As soon as the wounded could be removed the Confederates fell back in the direction of Port Republic, and the Union forces retired to Harrisonburg. The Union loss in the engagement was 65 killed, wounded and missing. The Confederate loss, including Ashby, was 18 killed, 50 wounded and 3 missing. Consult 'Official Records' (Vol. XII).