1st and 2nd Battles of Kernstown site photos

Courtesy of Alan M. Di Sciullo, Esq., Princeton Jct, NJ and Chris Shelton, Indianapolis, IN Please contact Webmaster for any use of these images		Links: 1. Battle Summary: Kernstown, First VA 2. Battle Summary: Kernstown, Second, VA 3. KERNSTOWN BATTLEFIELD ASSOCIATION 4. Battle of Kernstown I - Wikipedia 5. Kernstown Battles Marker


1st Kernstown, March 23, 1862 Enlarge 1st Kernstown As the sign states, on March 23, 1862, about 3,000 soldiers under General Thomas Jackson met up with what he thought was a rearguard of General Nathaniel Bank's Union force. The sign is near the Opequon Church where the battle started and which played heavily in both Kernstown battles Confederate forces advanced from the church and the adjacent Valley Pike along Sandy Ridge where they engaged in a race to a stone wall in the fields near the Rose House. Union troops narrowly beat Confederate troops under Richard Garnett (later of Pickett's Charge fame) and the Confederate advance was beaten back. Jackson was so angry with what he perceived to be Garnett's slow approach to the wall that he removed him from command While a defeat for Jackson on the battlefield, 1st Kernstown resulted in the Union sending more troops into the Valley and canceling a proposed advance from Fredericksburg to Richmond Alan M. Di Sciullo photo		1st Kernstown Rose House Alan M. Di Sciullo photo


1st Kernstown Rose House Alan M. Di Sciullo photo		1st Kernstown Rose Hill interpretive marker (no enlargement) Alan M. Di Sciullo photo


Kernstown interpretive marker Enlarge Alan M. Di Sciullo photo		1st Kernstown Looking toward the stone wall in the fields near the Rose House Alan M. Di Sciullo photo