We are in for it!
Subtitle: the first Battle of Kernstown, March 23, 1862
By: by Gary L. Ecelbarger.
Publisher: White Mane Pub. Co.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Shippensburg, PA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Kernstown, 1st Battle of, Winchester, Va., 1862.
Description: Years after the guns of the Civil War were silenced, a former private in the Stonewall Brigade remembered Kernstown as "one of the hardest little battles of the war.".

Fought on rolling terrain near a Valley turnpike hamlet three miles south of Winchester, the Battle of Kernstown is the first in a series of clashes that comprised Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's legendary Shenandoah Valley Campaign. The Battle of Kernstown has been the least understood encounter of that famous spring in 1862 - until now.

Gary Ecelbarger's new book brings to light the strategy, tactics, and personalities associated with March 23, 1862, by using hundreds of rare first-hand accounts from Kernstown soldiers. "We Are In For It!" demonstrates why one Civil War veteran considered the infantry fire at Kernstown to be "as heavy as it was at Antietam, Gettysburg, or the Wilderness."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-362) and index.
A Edwin Forbes's drawing of Kernstown Battle, sketched from behind Union infantry on Sandy Ridge on endpapers.