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Early on the morning of 25 May 1862, Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and his army defeated Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s forces here during Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley campaign. Outnumbered and outflanked, Banks hastily retreated north through the streets of Winchester. The Confederate pursuit was lethargic because the men were exhausted from a week of heavy marching, but they captured many Union soldiers and a heavy quantity of wagons and stores. President Abraham Lincoln diverted 30,000 men from the Union advance on Richmond to strike at Jackson.
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