"Our men on the left loaded and fired with the energy of madmen, and the 6th worked with equal desperation. This stopped the rush of the enemy and they halted and fired upon us their deadly musketry. During a few awful moments, I could see by the lurid light of the powder flashes, the whole of both lines. The two ... were within ... fifty yards of each other pouring musketry into each other as fast as men could load and shoot."
-Maj. Rufus Dawes, 6th Wisconsin
August 28th, 1862: A "fierce and sanguinary struggle" (T. Jackson) erupts along the Warrenton Turnpike as Stonewall boldly strikes a column of Federals moving towards Groveton, Virginia.
Confederate Order of Battle
Maj. Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson: + 2
2nd Virginia
Fatigue Grade: 4
2 stands
4th Virginia
Fatigue Grade: 4
3 stands
5th Virginia
Fatigue Grade: 4
3 stands
27th Virginia
Fatigue Grade: 4
1 stand
33rd Virginia
Fatigue Grade:4
1 stand________________________________________
(Col. Marcellus Douglass)
26th Georgia
Fatigue Grade: 3
3 stands
38th Georgia
Fatigue Grade: 2
2 stands
21st Georgia
Fatigue Grade: 2
2 stands
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Col. Alexander Taliaferro: + 1
47th Alabama
Fatigue Grade: 1
3 stands
37th Virginia
Fatigue Grade: 3
3 stands
Union Order of Battle
Brig. Gen. John Gibbon: + 1
6th Wisconsin
Fatigue Grade: 3
3 stands
2nd Wisconsin
Fatigue Grade: 4
3 stands
7th Wisconsin
Fatigue Grade: 3
4 stands
19th Indiana
Fatigue Grade: 3
5 stands
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(Brig. Gen. Abner Doubleday)
76th New York
Fatigue Grade: 2
3 stands
56th Pennsylvania
Fatigue Grade: 2
3 stands
Lines separate Commands. If the leader's name is in parentheses he is not present at the battle.
