Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s Confederates advance toward Culpeper Court House and confront a Federal force deployed to stop them at Cedar Mountain in northern Virginia.
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Conflicting Orders in the Shenandoah Valley
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Richard Ewell struggle with conflicting orders while trying to join forces to attack Federal forces in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
The Battle of Bentonville
March 19, 1865 – General Joseph E. Johnston’s makeshift Confederate army moved to crush the left wing of Major General William T. Sherman’s Federal army
Atlanta: The Federal Wheel Starts Turning
July 27, 1864 – Major General William T. Sherman prepared to move his three armies around the west and south of Atlanta to try wresting