The Second Battle of Kernstown is fought on July 24, 1864, at Kernstown, Virginia, outside Winchester, Virginia, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 in the American Civil War.

The confederate Army of the Valley under Lt. Gen. Jubal A.

Early soundly defeatsthe Union Army of West Virginia under Brig.

Gen. George Crook and drives it from the Shenandoah Valley back over the Potomac River into Maryland.

As a result, Early is able to launch the Confederacy's last major raid into northern territory, attacking the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Maryland and West Virginia and burning Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in retaliation for the burning of some civilian houses and farms earlier in the campaign.