At Cross Keys Battlefield on June 8, 1862, Gen. J. C. Fremont, pursuing Gen. T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson, was checked by Gen. R. S. Ewell with part of Jackson’s army, which lay towards Port Republic. Federal forces engaged numbered 12,750, with 684 killed and wounded, while Confederate forces engaged numbered 8,000, with 288 killed and wounded.