The Battle of Cross Keys (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 Mountain Department, commanded by Major General John C. Fremont.
[restored 2/15/2025]
Subsequent Events:
References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 289.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 170.
Current U.s. National Debt:
