Second Battle of Kernstown
| Second Battle of Kernstown | |||||||
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| Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
Battlefield where the Second Battle of Kernstown took place | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| United States (Union) | CSA (Confederacy) | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| George Crook | Jubal Early | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Army of West Virginia | Army of the Valley | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 9,500–10,000 | 13,000–14,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1,200 | 600 | ||||||
The Second Battle of Kernstown was fought on July 24, 1864, at Kernstown, Virginia, outside Winchester, Virginia, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 in the American Civil War. The Confederate Army of the Valley under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early soundly defeated the Union Army of West Virginia under Brig. Gen. George Crook and drove it from the Shenandoah Valley back over the Potomac River into Maryland. As a result, Early was able to launch the Confederacy's last major raid into northern Union territory, attacking the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Maryland and West Virginia and burning Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in retaliation for the burning of civilian houses and farms earlier in the campaign.