Jackson is Victorious, but Everything Went Wrong

| January 4, 2012

January 4, 1862 (Saturday) Stonewall Jackson’s plan to take the Potomac River town of Bath, held by a scant three companies of Union infantry, had crumbled before his eyes the previous day. While the plan was a simple and sound one (General Loring’s men were to hit the town head on, while the militia cut [...]