First Battle of Winchester

First Battle of Winchester is a Virginia historical marker in Winchester County, dedicated 1988.

Winchester County · dedicated 1988 · Rte. 11 (Valley Ave.), 0.1 mile south of Handley Boulevard

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On May 24, 1862, Confederate forces under Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson pursued Major General Nathaniel Banks' Union Army from Strasburg to Winchester. Banks made a stand south of Winchester, posting one of two infantry brigades on Bower's Hill, now known as Williamsburg Heights, and the other here in the plain below. In attacks the following day, Jackson routed the Union Army and drove it through the town towards Harper's Ferry.

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