 Complete the following phrase:  With Ewells reassignment, Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early took command, bringing a wealth of experience. He had already temporarily commanded both the Second and Third Corps during the incapacitation of Ewell and Hill during The Battle of the Wilderness. Early had much experience as a division commander and had served under Generals Jackson and Ewell. Therefore, Lee decided in June 1864 to use the Second Corps on yet another invasion of the Union in an attempt to cause General Ulysses S. Grant to fall back from pressing Lees front. Early took the Second Corps, technically as a detached Army of the Valley, down northward through the Shedoah Valley and, following the Battle of Monocacy, to the outskirts of Washington, D.C. at Fort Stevens, raiding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and countryside of Maryland and Pennsylvania along the way. But the invasion was short lived, as the Union was able to respond with a counter campaign under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, who pressed Early back into Virginia with overwhelming Union forces. As Sheridan fought Early up southward into the Shedoah Valley, Sheridan commenced upon his famous Burning of the Valley, destroying crops, livestock, farms, barns, homes and destroying everything in his path. Earlys Army of the Valley, the bulk of which came from the Second Corps, sustained heavy losses in the battles at 