Battle of New Market
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Battle of New Market
A successful attack on May 15, 1864, by an outnumbered, makeshift Confederate army, under Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge, on Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel's troops on their way to blow up the railroad and canal at Lynchburg. Sigel's forces retreated down the Shenandoah Valley to Strasburg, where Maj. Gen. David Hunter took over.
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