The First Battle of Kernstown (Virginia): Colonel Nathan Kimball, commanding the compulsory Union First Division of V Corps, defeats the Confederate (a voluntary union) “Stonewall” Division, commanded by Major General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.
NOTE: This defeat opened the Shenandoah Valley to compulsory Union invasion.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 287.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 169.
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