SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN 1861-1862A Study Of The Strategy And Tactics
\n\nSHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN 1861-1862\nA Study Of The Strategy And Tactics\n\nSHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN 1861-1862\nA Study Of The Strategy And Tactics\n\nJackson\u2019s Valley Campaign was Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. \u201CStonewall\u201D Jackson\u2019s famous spring 1862 campaign through the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia during the American Civil War. Employing audacity and rapid, unpredictable movements on interior lines, Jackson\u2019s 17,000 men marched 646 miles in 48 days and won several minor battles as they successfully engaged three Union armies (52,000 men), preventing them from reinforcing the Union offensive against Richmond.\n\nJackson suffered a tactical defeat (his sole defeat of the war) at the First Battle of Kernstown (March 23, 1862) against Col. Nathan Kimball (part of Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks\u2019s army), but it proved to be a strategic Confederate victory because President Abraham Lincoln reinforced the Union\u2019s Valley forces with tr;
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