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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.
The Second Battle of Winchester (2nd Edition). Lynchburg, VA: H.E. Howard, Inc., 1989. ISBN 0-930919-90-4; 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 9781611212891; Paths of the Civil War
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 ...
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 ...
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At the Second Battle of Winchester on 15 June 1863, Ewell's Second Corps trapped a Union division led by Brigadier General Robert H. Milroy and inflicted 4,443 casualties, including 3,358 captured. The Confederates lost only 269, [ 16 ] which included the Louisiana Guard Battery's Thompson mortally wounded.
On 15 June at the Second Battle of Winchester, the regiment had only 1 man wounded. At the Battle of Gettysburg, the 1st Louisiana Infantry fought at Culp's Hill on 2–3 July 1863, [6] taking 172 men into action and suffering 39 casualties. Nolan led the regiment and was killed.