Fighting began on March 23 when Jackson actually lost a fight near Kernstown to part of Maj. McClellan’s drive up the Virginia Peninsula toward Richmond. Using speed and maneuver, he managed to defeat three different Union forces and keep thousands of troops from reinforcing Maj. The fight at Winchester was one of the battles that occurred as part of the masterful campaign Jackson conducted from March until June 1862 in the 150-mile long corridor of the Shenandoah Valley. Overjoyed that Confederates were on the verge of reoccupying Winchester, several townswomen jumped at the chance to take potshots at the Union troops from windows and doorways. If the Union troops thought they would find a measure of safety in the town, however, they were wrong. Some of the retreating Union regiments marched in good order through Winchester, Virginia, while other units raced pell-mell into the northern Shenandoah Valley town, desperate to stay out of Major General Thomas J. With the help of some unruly women, the Rebel general reclaimed Winchester, Virginia, for the Confederacy in May 1862.
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