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Two front page maps...
Item # 723759
June 12, 1862
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, June 12, 1862
* Battle of Port Republic - Stonewall Jackson victory
* Memphis TN Tennessee - Fort Pillow maps
The front page has not one but two front page maps, headed: "The Action Before Memphis" and: "The Situation At Fort Pillow".
There are also first column heads on the Civil War including: "Another Battle In The Shenandoah Valley" "Gen. Shields at Jackson's Rear" "Gen. Shields's Advance Attacked by Overwhelming Numbers" "Five Hours' Desperate Fighting" "Combined Attack On Jackson" "The Rebels Then Driven Back" and more.
Eight pages, a bit irregular at the blank spine from disbinding, otherwise good condition.
background: The Battle of Port Republic served as the definitive masterstroke of Stonewall Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign, demonstrating his ability to exploit interior lines to defeat a numerically superior enemy in detail. Having checked Frémont at Cross Keys the previous day, Jackson burned the bridge over the North River to isolate his pursuers and concentrated his "Foot Cavalry" against Tyler’s Union brigade on a narrow plain between the South River and the Blue Ridge Mountains. The engagement was defined by the desperate struggle for "The Coaling," a critical elevated terrace where Federal artillery initially decimated Confederate ranks; it was only after a grueling flank march through dense laurel thickets by Richard Taylor’s Louisiana Brigade—culminating in a savage, hand-to-hand bayonet fight—that the Union guns were silenced. The Federal retreat soon turned into a rout, and the victory so demoralized and confused the Union high command that they withdrew from the Valley entirely, freeing Jackson to stealthily reinforce Robert E. Lee for the defense of Richmond.
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