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Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war -- John Andrew Holmes |
Kernstown (1862)(129 total words in this text)(2015 Reads)  War: American Civil War Date: 23 Mar 1862 Location: Virginia, US Outcome: Union victory Overview: Relying on faulty intelligence that reported the Union garrison at Winchester numbered only about 3,000, ?Stonewall? Jackson marched aggressively north with his 3,400-man division. The 8,500 Federals, commanded by Col. Nathan Kimball, stopped Jackson at Kernstown and then counterattacked turning Jackson?s left flank and forcing him to retreat. Despite this Union victory, President Lincoln was disturbed by Jackson?s threat to Washington and redirected substantial reinforcements to the Valley, depriving McClellan?s army of these troops. McClellan claimed that the additional troops would have enabled him to take Richmond during his Peninsula campaign. |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
