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First Battle of Winchester (view source)
Revision as of 02:24, December 3, 2010
, 02:24, December 3, 2010Created page with "{{ACWbattle |name=First Battle of Winchester<br/>Bowers Hill |image= |begin=May 25, 1862 |end=Same day |place=Frederick County and<br/>City of Winchester, Virginia |theater=East..."
{{ACWbattle
|name=First Battle of Winchester<br/>Bowers Hill
|image=
|begin=May 25, 1862
|end=Same day
|place=Frederick County and<br/>City of Winchester, Virginia
|theater=Eastern Theater
|campaign=Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign
|result=Confederate victory
|combatants1=Department of the Shenandoah<br/>One division, additional attached units
|combatants2=Department of the Valley<br/>Two divisions
|commanders1=[[Nathaniel P. Banks]]<br/>Major General, USA
|commanders2=[[Thomas J. Jackson]]<br/>Major General, CSA
|strength1=6,500
|strength2=16,000
|casualties1='''2,019'''
|casualties2='''400'''
}}
After skirmishing with Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s retreating army at Middletown and Newtown on May 24, Maj. Gen. T.J. Jackson’s division continued north on the Valley Pike toward Winchester. There, Banks was attempting to reorganize his army to defend the town. Ewell’s division converged on Winchester from the southeast using the Front Royal Pike. On May 25, Ewell attacked Camp Hill, while the Louisiana Brigade of Jackson’s division outflanked and overran the Union position on Bowers Hill. Panic spread through the Federal ranks, and many fled through Winchester. Banks’s army was soundly defeated and withdrew north across the Potomac River. This was a decisive battle in Jackson’s Valley Campaign. (''NPS summary'')
{{Template:Campaignbox Jackson valley campaign}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1862}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]
|name=First Battle of Winchester<br/>Bowers Hill
|image=
|begin=May 25, 1862
|end=Same day
|place=Frederick County and<br/>City of Winchester, Virginia
|theater=Eastern Theater
|campaign=Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign
|result=Confederate victory
|combatants1=Department of the Shenandoah<br/>One division, additional attached units
|combatants2=Department of the Valley<br/>Two divisions
|commanders1=[[Nathaniel P. Banks]]<br/>Major General, USA
|commanders2=[[Thomas J. Jackson]]<br/>Major General, CSA
|strength1=6,500
|strength2=16,000
|casualties1='''2,019'''
|casualties2='''400'''
}}
After skirmishing with Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s retreating army at Middletown and Newtown on May 24, Maj. Gen. T.J. Jackson’s division continued north on the Valley Pike toward Winchester. There, Banks was attempting to reorganize his army to defend the town. Ewell’s division converged on Winchester from the southeast using the Front Royal Pike. On May 25, Ewell attacked Camp Hill, while the Louisiana Brigade of Jackson’s division outflanked and overran the Union position on Bowers Hill. Panic spread through the Federal ranks, and many fled through Winchester. Banks’s army was soundly defeated and withdrew north across the Potomac River. This was a decisive battle in Jackson’s Valley Campaign. (''NPS summary'')
{{Template:Campaignbox Jackson valley campaign}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1862}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]