Ewell's brigades were hurried forward to cross the river. Confederate batteries were brought forward onto the plain but were outgunned and forced to seek safer positions. When the main Confederate battle line advanced, it came under heavy fire from the Union artillery and was soon pinned down. Winder sent two regiments ( 2nd Virginia and 4th Virginia) into the woods to flank the Union line and assault the Coaling. and deployed to attack east across the bottomland. Winder's brigade crossed the river by 5 a.m. The right and center were supported by artillery, 16 guns in all. He anchored the left of his line on a battery positioned on the Lewiston Coaling, extending his infantry west along Lewiston Lane to the South Fork near the site of Lewis's Mill. General Tyler, in command on the field, advanced at dawn of June 9 to the vicinity of Lewiston. James Shields's division was strung out along the muddy roads back to Luray. Samuel Carroll's brigade north of Lewiston on the Luray Road. Ewell's division marched to Port Republic to be in position to support Winder's attack.

Frémont's forces at Cross Keys, while the rest of Maj.

Winder's brigade was assigned the task of spearheading the assault against Union forces east of the river. Confederate pioneers built a bridge of wagons across the South Fork of the Shenandoah River at Port Republic. Winder's Stonewall Brigade was withdrawn from its forward position near Bogota (a large house owned by Gabriel Jones) and rejoined Jackson's division at Port Republic. During the night of June 8–9, 1862, Brig.

Shenandoah 1862 by Peter Cozzens