BATTLE SUMMARY
In conjunction with his Spring offensive, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel to move up the Shenandoah Valley along the Valley Pike with 10,000 men to destroy the railroad and canal complex at Lynchburg. Although outnumbered, Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge was able to concentrate scattered Confederate forces to meet Sigel's army near New Market. At New Market on the 15th, Sigel was attacked by a makeshift Confederate army of about 4,100 men commanded by Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge.