“one of the most brilliant achievements of the war.” – Major Halsey of the 21st Virginia speaking of Lieutenant McNulty’s Baltimore Light Artillery’s first shot at Old Town. Lieutenant John R. McNulty of Baltimore, Maryland (1832-1912) was the Confederacy (American Civil War) war hero, who with a single strategic shot of his 2nd Maryland Artillery command’s (Baltimore Light Artillery) Confederate States of America (CSA) guns at the Battle of Old Town (U.S. Civil War 1864 Valley Campaign), while perilously close to Union Army (Federal) forces, saved Brig. Gen. (CSA) John McCausland’s element of the Army of Northern Virginia from entrapment behind Union (American Civil War) lines on return route from raids into Maryland and Pennsylvania and their despicable sacking and burning of Chambersbur