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Chapter 21:
Louisianians with Stonewall Jackson
the great valley campaign
Taylor's brigade at front Royal
Middletown
Winchester
Cross Keys and Port Republic
with Lee before Richmond
the Seven days.
From May 8, 1862, when Jackson swooped down on McDowell, defeating Milroy, to June 9th, he furnished a series of valuable lessons to a select class of Union generals.
Between these dates was compressed, with its marvelous series of triumphs, the most brilliant campaign of our civil war. For the rest, the Valley campaign must have been transcendent in any war known to history.
It was a campaign approached, scarcely rivaled, but in naught surpassed, by Bonaparte's dazzling Italian campaign.
Taylor marched his Louisiana brigade, composed of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth (Colonel Stafford) regiments and Wheat's battalion, with Bowyer's 4-gun battery (Virginian) into the valley with Ewell's division.
The Louisianians of 1861-62 everywhere deserve a word for th