The Battle of Front Royal (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 First Maryland Infantry Regiment1st Maryland Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel John R. Kenly.

       [restored 2/15/2025]

Subsequent Events:

5/25/1862                   6/8/1862

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.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,215,701,317,831

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