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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy  no-repeat scroll top left;"|Battle of New Market

| partof      =Lynchburg Campaign

| date        =May 15, 1864

| location    =Shenandoah County, Virginia  

|May 15, 1864

| combatant1  =First Infantry Division<br/>First Cavalry Division

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| combatant2  =Confederate force<br/>VMI Corps of Cadets

!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy  no-repeat scroll top left;"|Department of West Virginia

| commander1  =[[Franz Sigel]]<br/>Maj. General, USA

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| commander2  =[[John C. Breckinridge]]<br/>Maj. General, CSA

|Commander

| strength1  =6,275 soldiers

|MGEN [[Franz Sigel]]

| strength2  =4,090 soldiers and cadets

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|MGEN [[John C. Breckinridge]]

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The '''Battle of New Market''' was the first of a series of engagement's in the summer and fall of 1864 that destroyed Confederate power in the Shenandoah Valley during the [[American Civil War]], and waged between two provisional field organizations hastily assembled by their respective commanders days before contact. Confederate success in the face of greater odds seemed to be a repetition of the days of Stonewall Jackson, as Federal strength was frittered away in a series of doctrinaire decisions devoid of reality. Unit cohesiveness was disregarded, and forces were committed with little concept of the Federal objectives or the tactical situation. The battle may be summarized as a Federal movement to contact, Confederate defense and counterattack, and a hasty Federal withdrawal.

The '''Battle of New Market''' was the first of a series of engagement's in the summer and fall of 1864 that destroyed Confederate power in the Shenandoah Valley during the [[American Civil War]], and waged between two provisional field organizations hastily assembled by their respective commanders days before contact. Confederate success in the face of greater odds seemed to be a repetition of the days of Stonewall Jackson, as Federal strength was frittered away in a series of doctrinaire decisions devoid of reality. Unit cohesiveness was disregarded, and forces were committed with little concept of the Federal objectives or the tactical situation. The battle may be summarized as a Federal movement to contact, Confederate defense and counterattack, and a hasty Federal withdrawal.

For a moment New Market made it seem as if another Stonewall had come to the Valley. But, although further encouraging moments were experienced in the summer of 1864, the South was inevitably declining. The promise of New Market soon was buried in Federal generalship and numerical and materiel superiority. Thus, by the time of the battle's first anniversary, peace had come to the Valley on Federal terms. The examples of courage and dedication shown in the battle, however, will endure forever.

For a moment New Market made it seem as if another Stonewall had come to the Valley. But, although further encouraging moments were experienced in the summer of 1864, the South was inevitably declining. The promise of New Market soon was buried in Federal generalship and numerical and materiel superiority. Thus, by the time of the battle's first anniversary, peace had come to the Valley on Federal terms. The examples of courage and dedication shown in the battle, however, will endure forever.

[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]

[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]