Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Maimakon haka, Crutchfield ya yi aiki a matsayin Stonewall Jackson's shugaban dakarun bindiga a cikin Valley Campaign, wanda ya fara ranar 21 ga Afrilu, 1862. Ranar 23 ga watan Mayu, ya gaggauta bindigogi zuwa gaba a yakin Front Royal, amma sun iya yin kadan tare da kayan aiki. Crutchfield ya ga sabis a yakin farko na Winchester
a ranar 25 ga Mayu, 1862, ciki har da ɗaukar umarni ga Maj. Janar Richard S. Ewell. Shi da mataimakinsa, Edward Willis, an kama su a ranar 8 ga Yuni, lokacin da wani rukuni na Tarayyar Tarayya ya shiga cikin baya na matsayi na Confederate a Port Republic. Lt. Col. Crutchfield ya dawo aiki a rana mai zuwa a yakin Port Republic, yana jagorantar bindigogi, bayan ya tsere a lokacin da aka yi masa ba'a tsakanin masu kama shi da sojoji daga 37th Virginia Infantry.