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Rob Sherwood
■»* *. •Events Coordinator,
J*U»*Bidge Civil War Round Table
Battle of Front Royal
a decisive turning poijuT.lti General Stonewall J^elJsQn’s Valley Campaign, a campaign so spectacular in its 'success that it has been stbiji^d extensively ever sinte—including by Generals Erwin Rommel for his desert campaign in North Africa in World War Two and by Gen^fal Norman Schwarzkopf for his Desert Storm campaign in Kuwait.
Often surrounded and outijufhbered four to one by fed^^f troops, Jackson was ahh£tOlead his “foot cavalry” —'«ppamed for the speed of tlveir' marches—through a seri£s,’of brilliant maneuvers that.eventually routed the fede^als from the valley, helped* force the retreat of McClellan from the doors of Riditnirnd. in his Peninsula Campaign, and even managed to threaten to capital Washington D.C. itself. . Atler sending Turner Ashby’s cavalry to capture Buckton and prevent the North from receiving any communications from Front Royal, Jackson approached Front Royal from a little used side road, Gooney Manor Road, which shielded his .army and contributed to the element of surprise. Frorp atop Prospect Hill, Jackson was able to look on Front Royal and the encampment of the Union forces on the^east side of the South Fork of the Shenandoah Riyejv For Jackson’s attack to succeed, he had to beat the Federal forces to the river bridges that could provide them their only avenue of escape.
Around 2 p.m. on the hot day of May 23, 1862, Jackson sent his line of skirmishers forward as he started an enveloping movement toward another hill and the all-important bridges... What ensued was a see-saw conflict that raged throughout the town and was to have momentous effects on the the future course of the war.
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