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Stonewall Jackson's command, the Valley District of the Department of Northern Virginia, expanded significantly during the campaign as reinforcements were added, starting with a force of a mere 5,000 effectives and reaching an eventual peak of 17,000 men. It remained, however, greatly outnumbered by the various Union armies opposing it, which ...
Decoying the Yanks: Jackson's Valley Campaign. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books. ISBN 0-8094-4724-X. Cozzens, Peter (2008). Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3200-4. Eicher, John H.; David J. Eicher (2001). Civil War High Commands. Stanford, California ...
Chancellorsville is known as Lee's "perfect battle" because his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force resulted in a significant Confederate victory. Stonewall Jackson was shot in the left arm and right hand by friendly fire during the battle. The arm was amputated, but he died of pneumonia. [151]
His journals were edited in 1973 by Archie P. MacDonald and published under the title Make Me a Map of the Valley: The Civil War Journal of Stonewall Jackson's Cartographer. Hotchkiss's sketchbooks, diaries and maps are available at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in ...
Located at 415 North Braddock Street, it served as the winter headquarters for Stonewall Jackson during 1861 and 1862. General Philip H. Sheridan's Headquarters: Sheridan utilized the Logan family home as his headquarters during the latter part of the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign. Sheridan began his famous ride here to rally his troops to ...
In March 1862, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was sent into the Shenandoah Valley to tie down the Union forces in the Valley. Jackson received incorrect intelligence about the size of Union forces near Kernstown, and on 23 March 1862 attacked what he thought was a small Union detachment, but was in fact an entire infantry division under the command of Col. Nathan Kimball, a force more ...
He sent Jubal Early's corps to sweep Union forces from the Valley and, if possible, to menace Washington, D.C., hoping to compel Grant to dilute his forces against Lee around Petersburg, Virginia. Early was operating in the same area where Confederate Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson had conducted his successful 1862 Valley campaign. Early got off ...
The Battle of McDowell, also known as the Battle of Sitlington's Hill, was fought on May 8, 1862, near McDowell, Virginia, as part of Confederate Major General Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign during the American Civil War.