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As McClellan's offensive against Richmond in the Peninsula Campaign begins, a second front in the Eastern Theater is opened, this one in the "Breadbasket of the Confederacy" - the Shenandoah Valley. Union forces under Major General Nathaniel P. Banks advance towards Winchester in the upper part of the Valley, and opposing them is a small Confederate army led by Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. On March 23rd, 1862, Jackson, going off bad intelligence from his cavalry commander, Colonel Turner Ashby, attacks James Shields' division outside Winchester at Kernstown. He believes that Shields' division is smaller than it actually is, and is about to face heavy odds with his outnumbered command. The ensuing First Battle of Kernstown would result on one of Stonewall Jackson's few military defeats of the war.

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Sources:

Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign by Peter Cozzens
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Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign: From November 4, 1861 to June 17, 1862 by William Allan
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Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign: War Comes to the Homefront by Jonathan A. Noyalas
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We Are in for It: The First Battle of Kernstown, March 23, 1862 by Gary L. Ecelbarger
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