The Battle of Winchester (west Virginia): Lieutenant General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, commanding the Second Corps of the Confederate (a voluntary union), Army of Northern Virginia, defeats the compulsory Union Department of the Shenandoah, commanded by Major General Nathaniel P. Banks.
[restored 2/15/2025]
Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, orders Major General George B. McClellan General-in-Chief of the (standing) Army of the united States to seize all railroads within the States for movement of troops and war material.
[restored 4/3/2022]
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 288.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 170.
Everette B. Long, The Civil War Day by Day, 1861-1865, (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971), 216.
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