The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory That Opened the Door to Gettysburg
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June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is underway. Robert E. Lee's
Army of Northern Virginia is pushing northward through the
Shenandoah Valley toward Pennsylvania, and only one significant
force stands in its way: Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy's Union
division of the Eighth Army Corps, in the vicinity of Winchester
and Berryville, Virginia. What happened next is the subject of the
provocative new book The Second Battle of Winchester: The
Confederate Victory That Opened the Door to Gettysburg, June 13-15,
1863. Despite being heavily outnumbered, General Milroy defied
repeated instructions to withdraw his command even as the
overpowering Second Corps under Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell approached
within striking distance. The veteran Indiana
politician-turned-soldier was convinced the enemy consisted of
nothing more than cavalry or was simply a feint. Milroy's
controversial decision to stand and fight pitted his outnumbered
and largely inexperienced men against some of Lee's finest
veterans. The complex and fascinating maneuvering and fighting that
followed on June 13-15 cost Milroy hundreds of killed and wounded
and some 4,000 captured (about one-half of his command), with the
remainder of his command routed from the battlefield. The combat
cleared the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley of Federal
troops, demonstrated Lee could obtain supplies on the march,
justified the elevation of General Ewell to replace the recently
deceased Stonewall Jackson--and sent shockwaves through the
Northern states. Today, the Second Battle of Winchester is largely
forgotten. But in June 1863, the politically charged front-page
news caught President Lincoln and the War Department by surprise
and forever tarnished Milroy's career. The beleaguered Federal
soldiers who fought there spent a lifetime seeking redemption,
arguing their three-day forlorn hope delayed the Rebels long enough
to allow the Army of the Potomac to arrive and defeat Lee at
Gettysburg. For the Confederates, the decisive leadership on
display outside Winchester proved an illusion that masked
significant command issues buried within the upper echelons of
Stonewall Jackson's former corps that would only make themselves
known in the earliest days of July on a different battlefield.
Award-winning authors Eric J. Wittenberg and Scott L. Mingus Sr.
combined their researching and writing talents to produce the most
in-depth and comprehensive study of Second Winchester ever written.
Their balanced effort, based upon scores of archival and previously
unpublished diaries, newspaper accounts, letter collections, other
firsthand sources, and a deep familiarity with the terrain in and
around Winchester and the lower Shenandoah Valley, explores the
battle from every perspective. The Second Battle of Winchester is
comprehensive, highly readable, deeply researched, and immensely
interesting. Now, finally, the pivotal battle in the Shenandoah
Valley that opened the door to Gettysburg has the book it has long
deserved.
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