The American Civil War - Chronologically

June 20, 1862 Loudoun Rangers (Union) Muster into Service in VA (sometimes called the Independent Loudon Rangers) Lovettsville, VA in Loudoun County  Union Loyalists on the Border "It cost something to be a Union man in rebeldom." You're standing in no-man's-land during the Civil War. Lovettsville was a tense pro-Union bastion in a Confederate state , located just two miles south of the Potomac River, the border between North and South.  Lovettsville was settled by German immigrants who worked small farms, had little use for enslaved labor, and were reluctant to leave the Union. When the Lovettsville precinct voted on secession in May 1861, the vote was 325-46 against. As the Confederate government asserted control, many local Union loyalists fled to Maryland, including Samuel Means, a miller from nearby Waterford. Means was commissioned to form a Union cavalry company, the Loudon Rangers, which went into service on June 20, 1862. Half of the men in the company muster...

June 9, 1862 Port Republic Rockingham County, VA Brig. Gen. Erastus B. Tyler vs. Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson: Ewell, Taylor's LA Tigers, Walker, Winder, Taliaferro> Stapleton Crutchfield. Thomas T. Munford  * The final and most costly battle fought by Jackson's Army of the Valley during their Valley Campaign of 1862, but still a double-success on the heels of Cross Keys . * We've got Tyler vs. Taylor here y'all!  * The battlefield "retains its wartime agrarian appearance"; it is mostly preserved. The Coaling was the first land acquisition of the modern Civil War battlefield preservation movement. The 8.55-acre site was donated to the Trust's forerunner, the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (the founding battlefield preservation organization) by the Lee-Jackson Foundation in 1988. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=254870 The cross road here roughly divides the Confederate and Union lines in the battle of June 9, 1862. Jackson attacked Shiel...

June 8, 1862  The Battle of Cross Keys  Rockingham County, VA Maj. Gen. John C. Fremont >  Col. Gustave P. Cluseret's brigade ;  Brig. Gen. James Shields > Colonel Samuel S. Carroll; Brig. Gen. Robert C. Schenck , Brig. Gen. Robert H. Milroy, and Brig. Gen. Julius H. Stahel  vs. Jackson: Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell;  Captain William T. Poague's battery, Captain James McD. Carrington;    Col. Samuel V. Fulkerson's 37th Virginia Infantry;   Brig. Gen. Isaac R. Trimble's brigade, Brig. Gen. Arnold Elzey * Part of Jackson's successful Valley Campaign of 1862, right before the climactic achievement of Port Republic. Famously, he makes a stand to prevent the two Union armies, on opposite sides of the mountain range, from reuniting and attacking him. It works: he keeps Shields and Fremont separated then defeats each in turn.  * Still, Jackson and his team are almost capture by a Union raiding party on the morning of the...