C.S.A. General Stonewall Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign comes to a close with victories at Cross Keys and Port Republic. This campaign kept Union forces distracted and engaged for weeks thus preventing them from providing reinforcements for McClellan in the Peninsula Campaign.
Wikipedia excerpt below:
Jackson’s Valley Campaign was Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s spring 1862 campaign through the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia during the American Civil War. Employing audacity and rapid, unpredictable move
ments on interior lines, Jackson’s 17,000 men marched 646 miles (1,040 km) in 48 days and won several minor battles as they successfully engaged three Union armies (52,000 men), preventing them from reinforcing the Union offensive against Richmond.
The Civil War Gazette (est. 1995) 