Seven Days Battles--Jackson's March to the Battlefield

After achieving his objectives in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson led his army east in June 1862 to join Gen. Robert E. Lee in the defense of Richmond. Exhausted and behind schedule, Jackson spent the night of 26 June near Hundley’s Corner, two miles north of here. His troops passed through this intersection on the morning of 27 June, and Jackson met with Lee a short distance south of here at Walnut Grove Church. Later in the day, after Jackson’s unclear instructions to a guide delayed his march, Lee’s and Jackson’s combined forces successfully assaulted the Union V Corps at the Battle of Gaines’s Mill, about 3.5 miles southeast of here.