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Battle of Kernstown
Dear Mr. Spencer,
Did you the following about the Battle of Kernstown?
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Fought on March 23, 1862
The 1st battle of the 1862 Valley Campaign.
The CSA was commanded by General Thomas J. “Stonewall”
Jackson.
The US was led by Colonel Nathan Kimball.
The Union Army was able to stop the advancing Confederate
forces.
The Union Army’s counterattack forced Jackson’s army to
retreat.
There were 590 Union Casualties & 718 Confederate Casualties
Despite the victory, President Lincoln was concerned with the
threat Jackson’s forces posed to Washington D.C., so he
redirected reinforcements to the Shenandoah Valley instead of
sending them to McClellan, who was trying to capture Richmond
by fighting his way up the Yorktown peninsula.
McClellan claimed these additional troops would have helped
him capture Richmond during his Peninsula Campaign.
Take care and hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
Charlie Brown
Mr. Matthew Spencer
Social Studies Teacher
Lincoln Park Middle School
90 Ryerson Road
Lincoln Park, NJ 07035
P.S.
The present day location
of the battlefield is
Kernstown , which is in
Frederick County, Virginia.
Bibliography: Battle of Kernstown
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http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/kernstown/maps/kernstownmap.html (Map)
Civil War Trust: Kernstown http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/kernstown.html
O’Shea Richard & Greenspan, David Battle Maps of the Civil War
(pages 33-37). American Heritage. New York, NY 1992.
Woodhead, Henry Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War (pages 34-43). Time-Life
Books. Ann Arbor, Michigan 1996.