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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.
Second Battle of Fort Fisher; Second Battle of Fredericksburg; Second Battle of Kernstown; Second Battle of Rappahannock Station; Second Battle of Sabine Pass; Second Battle of Winchester; Sherman's March to the Sea; Ship prefix; Siege of Port Hudson; Stephen Dodson Ramseur; Third Battle of Winchester; Valley campaigns of 1864; Vicksburg ...
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 ...
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.
June 9, 1863 Battle of Winchester II: Confederate Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia and Union 2nd Division, VIII Corps: June 13–15, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg: Confederate Army of North Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac: July 1–3, 1863 Battle of Helena: Confederate District of Arkansas and Union District of East Arkansas: July 4, 1863
The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie LLC, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-288-4. [10] Wittenberg, Eric J. The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books, Inc., 2003, 2017. ISBN 978-1-57488-650-4. Wittenberg ...
At first however, Lee's advance north went well. At the Second Battle of Winchester (June 13–15, 1863) Steuart fought with Johnson's division, helping to bring about a Confederate victory, during which his brigade took around 1,000 prisoners and suffered comparatively small losses of 9 killed, 34 wounded. [33]