Kammala wannan magana: Bangarorin Banks sun kasance mallakar George McClellan duk da cewa suna aiki ne a matsayin kwamandan mai zaman kansa a Shenandoah Valley. A ranar 14 ga Maris, 1862, Shugaba Lincoln ya ba da umarnin zartarwa da ke kafa dukkan sojojin a sashen McClellan a cikin runduna. Banks ta haka ne ya zama kwamandan kwamandan, wanda ke da alhakin tsohon sashinsa, wanda yanzu Brig. Gen. Alpheus Williams ya umurce shi, da kuma sashin Brig. Gen. James Shields, wanda aka kara wa umurnin Banks. Bayan Stonewall Jackson ya koma baya a yakin farko na Kernstown a ranar 23 ga Maris, an umarci Banks a maimakon haka ya bi Jackson zuwa kwarin, don hana shi karfafa kariya ga Richmond. Lokacin da mutanen Banks suka isa kudancin kwarin a ƙarshen layin samar da kayayyaki, shugaban ya tuna da su zuwa Strasburg, a ƙarshen arewa. Daga nan sai Jackson ya yi tafiya da sauri a kusa da Luray Valley, kuma ya sadu da wasu daga cikin sojojin Banks a yakin Front Royal a ranar 23 ga Mayu. Wannan ya sa Banks ya janye zuwa Winchester, inda Jackson
sake kai hari a ranar 25 ga Mayu. Sojojin Tarayyar ba su da kyau a cikin tsaro, kuma sun janye cikin rikici a ƙetaren Kogin Potomac kuma sun koma Maryland. An yi ƙoƙari don kama sojojin Jackson a cikin motsi na pincer (tare da sojojin da John Frémont da Irvin McDowell suka jagoranci) sun kasa, kuma Jackson ya iya ƙarfafa Richmond. An soki Banks saboda rashin kula da dakarunsa da kuma yin bincike mara kyau a cikin yakin, yayin da abokan siyasarsa suka nemi su zargi laifin da aka yi a kan Ma'aikatar War.