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Union
Casualties: 5,735
Confederate Casualties:
2,441
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Statistical Source: NPS
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Stonewall Jackson's
Valley Campaign in April and May 1862: To keep Union
forces from reinforcing McClellan
on the Peninsula, Jackson and the fast-moving infantrymen
he called his "foot cavalry" ranged up and
down the Shenandoah Valley in northern Virginia, despite
the best efforts of three Federal commanders - John
Charles Frémont, Nathaniel Banks and Irvin McDowell
- to stop him. Banks lost so many supplies to Jackson's
lightning raiders that Confederates took to calling
him "Commissary Banks."
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