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After the Battle of Brandy Station on June 9, 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee ordered Ewell's 19,000-man Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, to clear the lower Shenandoah Valley of Union opposition so that Lee's army could proceed on its invasion of Pennsylvania, shielded by the Blue Ridge Mountains from Union interference.
Maier, Larry B. Gateway to Gettysburg: The Second Battle of Winchester. Burd Street Press: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 2002. ISBN 1-57249-287-2; Wittenberg, Eric J. and Mingus Sr., Scott L. The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Richmond (1st Edition). El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie LLC, 2016. ISBN ...
He commanded the 2nd Division of the VIII Corps, Middle Department, from February 1863 until June. During the Second Battle of Winchester, he was outmaneuvered and "gobbled up" by the Confederate corps of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, the vanguard of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia on its way north to invade Pennsylvania.
Winchester was occupied by the 2nd Division of the VIII Corps of the Federal Middle Department from December 24, 1862, until the Second Battle of Winchester on June 15, 1863. The primary objective of the Federals during this period was to protect and defend military approaches to Washington, D.C., and especially to guard and defend the ...
Captain Dejean (Company F) was killed on 14 June 1863 at the Second Battle of Winchester. [2] At the Battle of Gettysburg on 1–3 July, the 8th Louisiana Infantry took 296 soldiers into action and sustained 75 casualties.
January 8, 1863: Second Battle of Springfield: Missouri: D: Union: Confederates enter town, but are unable to take nearby fort. January 9, 1863: Battle of Arkansas Post (Battle of Fort Hindman) Arkansas: C: Union: Part of Vicksburg Campaign, fight for control of mouth of Arkansas River. January 9 –11, 1863: Battle of Hartville: Missouri: D ...
Map showing the attack of Steuart's Marylanders on Lower Culp's Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg. Johnson's division, including the 1st Maryland, arrived at Gettysburg late in the afternoon on July 1, 1863, taking position on the far edge of the Confederate left at the foot of Culp's Hill; the men were exhausted after a 130-mile forced march. [4]
June 14, 1863 March 6, 1890 "Second Lieutenant Durham led his command over the stone wall, where he was wounded." (at the Second Battle of Winchester) Richard Enderlin: Musician: 73rd Ohio Infantry: July 1 – July 3, 1863 September 11, 1897 "Voluntarily took a rifle and served as a soldier in the ranks during the first and second days of the ...