Jackson Strikes

Union troops approached from the west on Warrenton Pike, raising a long cloud of dust and suspecting no Confederate infantry nearby, while Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson rode along the ridge and, though Maj. Gen. John Pope's army had been hunting him, chose the time and place to fight. Jackson ordered artillery into position to the left of the farmhouse, and the Confederates began shelling the troops in the road. Instead of panicking, the Midwestern Union soldiers turned to meet the attack: the 2nd Wisconsin scrambled into line on the far edge of Brawner's orchard, and the 19th Indiana emerged from the woods where they had first taken cover and advanced upslope toward the Stonewall Brigade at the fence line.

Haymarket, Virginia · United States