Virginia Manchester Light Artillery Battalion (Confederate)
5/1/61
Organized - Virginia Manchester Light Artillery Battalion - Virginia
6/8/62
Battle - Cross Keys - Rockingham County, Virginia
Cross Keys
Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont's and his 11,000-man Mountain Department army were tasked with keeping Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's two-division force engaged in the Shenandoah Valley and unable to join with Robert E. Lee's army defending Richmond during the Peninsula Campaign against the Confederate capital. In early June, Jackson's men under Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell were encamped in the vicinity of Cross Keys on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River. Union screening cavalry approached Jackson f…READ MORE
4/15/63
Mustered Out - Virginia Manchester Light Artillery Battalion - Virginia
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