What is First Battle of Kernstown?
{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = First Battle of Kernstown | image = | caption = | partof = the [[American Civil War]] | date = {{Start date|1862|3|23}} | place = [[Frederick County, Virginia|Frederick County]] and [[Winchester, Virginia]] | result = [[United States of America|Union]] tactical victory, [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] strategic victory | combatant1 = {{flagicon|USA|1861}} [[United States]] ([[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]) | combatant2 = {{flagicon|CSA|1861}} [[Confederate States of America|CSA (Confederacy)]] | commander1 = [[Nathan Kimball]] | commander2 = [[Stonewall Jackson]] | strength1 = 8,500 ([[estimated]]){{efn|name=fn1|All [[American Civil War casualties|Civil War casualty]] numbers are [[wikt:approximate|approximate]], no matter what the source.<ref name=casualtiesCWT>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilwar.org/education/civil-war-casualties.html |title=Civil War Casualties |publisher=Civil War Trust |access-date=8 September 2016}}</ref> Three types of [[document]]s were used to estimate casualties. These were: [[Military|enlistment rolls]], [[Muster (military)|muster rolls]] and [[casualty (person)|casualty]] lists.<ref name=casualtiesCWT/> Aside from spelling and other errors, many of these were subjected to the [[weather]], lost or damaged.<ref name=casualtiesCWT/> Many Confederate records were destroyed by the end of the war leaving Union numbers the more accurate of the two estimates.<ref name=casualtiesCWT/> To give some idea of how widely varied the numbers can be, estimates for the total number of those killed and wounded in the American Civil War range from 640,000 to 800,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-casualties |title=Civil War Casualties |publisher=HistoryNet |access-date=8 September 2016}}</ref>}}<ref name=kernstownCWT>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/kernstown.html?tab=facts |title=Kernstown |publisher=Civil War Trust |access-date=8 September 2016 }}{{Dead l