Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg (Eric J. Wittenberg & Scott Mingus Jr. - CWC) Ed Bearss S/L# 28365

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This time the Union troops wrested the wall and high ground from the Confederates and drove west into the enemy’s rear

even historians sympathetic to Lincoln have found it necessary to apologize for his administration’s record on civil liberties during the Civil War

” —Doris Kearns Goodwin

Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg (Eric J. Wittenberg & Scott Mingus Jr. - CWC) Ed Bearss S/L# 28365The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg by Eric Wittenburg and Scott Mingus June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is underway. Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia is pushing northward through the Shenandoah Valley toward Pennsylvania, and only one significant force stands in its way: Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroys Union division of the Eighth Army Corps, in the vicinity of Winchester and Berryville,