Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series! Our next lecture will be: The Second Battle of Winchester by Scott Mingus. Cost is $6 per person and $2 from EVERY registration will be donated to Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation. The talk will be recorded and sent to participants to view about a week after the live talk.

Synopsis

In the summer of 1863, as Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began pushing north toward Pennsylvania, only one significant force stood in the way -- Union Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy’s division of the Eighth Army Corps in the vicinity of Winchester and Berryville. Milroy stubbornly defied repeated instructions to withdraw to safety, believing the enemy action to be merely a cavalry raid or feint. His controversial decision put his outnumbered, largely inexperienced…