 Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pakutanga kweHondo Yenyika yeAmerica muna 1861, Pendleton County yakavhota kutsigira Virginias Ordinance of Secession, kunyangwe paine tsitsi dzakasimba dzeUnited kubva kuvagari vayo vazhinji. Kurwisana kwakatarisana kwakaitika pakati pezvikwata zvekuchamhembe nekumaodzanyemba muhondo yose, asi hondo huru chete yekukanganisa nzvimbo yeFranklin yakaitika muna May 1862. Pashure peHondo Yokutanga yeKernstown, Major General weConfederate Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson akatanga mushandirapamwe wake weMupata kuti akwezve kutarisisa kweHondo yeMubatanidzwa kubva kuPeninsula Campaign yayo padyo neConfederate capitol paRichmond. Musi waMay 8, 1862, Jackson akasangana nemapoka eUnion kubva kuWest Virginia neOhio pasi pekutungamira kwaBrigadier General Robert H. Milroy paHondo yeMcDowellmakiromita anenge 50 kubva kuFranklin. Pashure pezuva rokurwa, mauto eUnion akabva muhondo ndokutanga kudzokera kuFranklin, achiteverwa naJackson kweinenge vhiki. Mauto acho akasangana kwenguva pfupi paMcCoys Mill makiromita matatu kumaodzanyemba kweFranklin, yava National Historic Site, asi Jackson akabva adzokera kuShenandoah Valley kuti aenderere mberi nekurwisa kwake. 