Also in the spring of 1862, Stonewall…

1862 CE

Also in the spring of 1862, Stonewall Jackson leads his Valley Campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.

Employing audacity and rapid, unpredictable movements on interior lines, Jackson's seventeen thousand men march six hundred and forty-six miles (one thousand and forty kilometers) in forty-eight days and win several minor battles as they successfully engage three Union armies (fifty-two thousand men), including those of Nathaniel P. Banks and John C. Fremont, preventing them from reinforcing the Union offensive against Richmond.

The swiftness of Jackson's men earn them the nickname of "foot-cavalry".

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Abraham Lincoln View → George B. McClellan View → John Charles Frémont View → Nathaniel P. Banks View → Stonewall Jackson View →

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