BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Winchester -- Star Fort

VA -- Winchester -- Star Fort:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. STARFT_140315_016.JPG: Third Battle of Winchester "The enemy within the fort.... hastily evacuated"
2. STARFT_140315_023.JPG: Second Battle of Winchester "The guns in Star Fort greeted them"
3. STARFT_140315_051.JPG: Second Battle of Winchester "A scene... I shall never forget"
4. STARFT_140315_064.JPG: Civil War Earthworks "Where they are compelled by nature.... to resort to it"
5. STARFT_140315_106.JPG: Constructing Star Fort "It was hard work"
Description of Subject Matter: May 25, 1862:
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.
The above was from http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va104.htm

June 13-15, 1863:
After the Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863, Lee ordered the II Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, under Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, to clear the lower Shenandoah Valley of Union opposition. Ewell’s columns converged on Winchester’s garrison commanded by Brig. Gen. Robert Milroy. After fighting on the afternoon of June 13 and the capture of West Fort by the Louisiana Brigade on June 14, Milroy abandoned his entrenchments after dark in an attempt to reach Charles Town. “Allegheny” Johnson’s division conducted a night flanking march and before daylight of the 15th cut off Milroy’s retreat just north of Winchester at Stephenson’s Depot. More than 2,400 Federals surrendered. This Confederate victory cleared the Valley of Union troops and opened the door for Lee’s second invasion of the North.
The above was from http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va107.htm
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