Stonewall Jackson's Marches

The Shenandoah Valley below was the scene of much of Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's activity during the first two years of the Civil War. His swift and secret marches earned his troops the name "foot cavalry." Jackson's Valley Campaign supplied the lean Confederacy with captured materials of war. His victories resulted in many Union troops being withheld from the first sustained campaign against Richmond for the defense of Washington, D.C.

Virginia · United States