The Battle of Port Republic (Virginia): Lieutenant General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. commanding the Second Corps of the Confederate (a voluntary union), Army of Northern Virginia, defeats Shield’s Division of the compulsory Union Department of the Rappahannock, commanded by Brigadier General Erastus B. Tyler.

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References:

Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 289.

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