The Second Battle of Winchester The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg 1st Edition by Scott Mingus, Eric Wittenberg ISBN 161121288X 9781611212884

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ISBN 10: 1611212898

ISBN 13: 9781611212891

Author:  Scott L. Mingus Sr., Eric J. Wittenberg 

The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg 1st Edition: 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.

 

The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: December 1862 – June 1863

Chapter 2: The Confederate Advance on Winchester, June 3 – 11, 1863

Chapter 3: Friday, June 12

Chapter 4: Saturday, June 13, Part 1

Chapter 5: Saturday, June 13, Part 2

Chapter 6: Sunday, June 14

Chapter 7: Sunday, June 14, afternoon and evening

Chapter 8: Sunday, June 14

Chapter 9: Monday, June 15, morning

Chapter 10: Monday, June 15, afternoon and evening

Chapter 11: June 16 through June 30

Chapter 12: The Aftermath

Epilogue: The March into Undeserved Obscurity

 

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