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Jackson breaks Tyler's line at Port Republic; Frémont's army watches, stranded across the flooded South Fork
Taylor's Louisiana brigade takes the Coaling, loses it, and takes it again before the Union line finally gives way, leaving Jackson's 17,000 men free to march on Richmond.
By early June 1862, three Union armies were closing in on Stonewall Jackson from different directions, each hoping to trap him in the Shenandoah Valley. On June 9, Jackson's forces fought Brig. Gen. Erastus B. Tyler's men at Port Republic, Virginia — a brutal, costly engagement that saw Richard Taylor's Louisiana brigade take and lose and retake the key artillery position at the Coaling before finally holding it. With the Union line broken, Tyler withdrew and Frémont's army, watching from across the rain-swollen South Fork, arrived too late to intervene. Jackson was now free to march his 17,000 men to Richmond…
