May 23, 1862 - Front Royal; Lewisburg Battle
May 23, 1862 The Battle of Front Royal (or Guard Hill, or Cedarville) Front Royal and Cedarville, VA Gen. Nathaniel Banks: Col. John Reese Kenly (wounded and captured here)- 29th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment guarded the area between the two forks of the river; 100 men from two companies of the 5th New York Cavalry Regiment; 1st Maryland Infantry vs. Maj. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson: Ewell, The Stonewall Brigade, Turner Ashby's cavalry; 1st Maryland Infantry (CSA) under Col. Bradley T. Johnson & Major Roberdeau Wheat's Louisiana Tigers; the 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment and the 6th Virginia Cavalry Regiment under Colonel Thomas Flournoy, and part of the 8th Louisiana Infantry Regiment * Banks' men were entrenched and guarding the Shenandoah Valley, facing south from Strasburg, so Jackson headed east to circle around and hit them from behind, at their Front Royal outpost, where only 1,00 men anchored their long line across the Vall...