The complex and fascinating maneuvering and fighting on June 13-15 cost Milroy hundreds of killed and wounded and about 4,000 captured (roughly one-half of his command), with the remainder routed from the battlefield. Milroy’s controversial decision committed his outnumbered and largely inexperienced men against some of Lee’s finest veterans. In fact, the enemy consisted of General Lee’s veteran Second Corps under Lt. Milroy, a veteran Indiana politician-turned-soldier, was convinced the approaching enemy consisted of nothing more than cavalry or was merely a feint, and so defied repeated instructions to withdraw. What happens next is the subject of this provocative new book. Milroy’s Union division of the Eighth Army Corps in the vicinity of Winchester and Berryville, Virginia. Only one significant force stands in its way: Maj. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia pushes west into the Shenandoah Valley and then north toward the Potomac River. A comprehensive, deeply researched history of the pivotal 1863 American Civil War battle fought in northern Virginia.
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