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War map on the attack upon General Banks at Winchester...
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War map on the attack upon General Banks at Winchester...

Item # 710714 ·

NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE, June 7, 1862

  • First Battle of Winchester w/ map
  • Confederate Stonewall Jackson victory

Page 3 features a large, detailed map headed: "THE ATTACK ON GENERAL BANKS" at the battle of Winchester, Virginia. Related reports, plus various Civil War reports scattered throughout the issue.
Complete in 8 pages, never bound nor trimmed so it folds out to one large sheet, a hole to the front leaf causes text loss but obviously not affecting the map.

Background: Fought on May 25, 1862, as a cornerstone victory of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson’s legendary Shenandoah Valley Campaign, the First Battle of Winchester saw Jackson’s 16,000 Confederates outmaneuver and overwhelm Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s 6,500 Union troops holding the southern heights of the town. After Union forces initially held their ground in heavy morning fog along Bower's Hill, Jackson launched a decisive flanking maneuver using Gen. Richard Taylor's Louisiana Brigade, collapsing the Union right and causing Banks's men to retreat through Winchester's streets in disarray toward Maryland. The Confederate triumph cost Jackson around 400 men while inflicting over 2,000 Union casualties—mostly prisoners—along with massive supply losses that earned Banks the moniker "Commissary Banks." Crucially, the panic generated by Jackson’s advance forced President Abraham Lincoln to divert over 30,000 Union reinforcements away from Gen. George B. McClellan’s drive on Richmond, relieving pressure on the Confederate capital and securing the Valley Campaign as a masterclass in operational strategy.

Category: Yankee
Price
$34
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.