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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF81_civil-war-action-in-edinburg_Edinburg-VA.html
During Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's 1862 Valley campaign, Confederate Col. Turner Ashby's cavalry and Chew's Battery halted Union Maj Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's steady advance southward. Ashby engaged Union forces 28 times in April alo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF1D_the-stover-mcginnis-house_Edinburg-VA.html
March 26, 1862: "In the morning our battalion was ordered back to Narrow Passage, ? near the rest of the army. Hd. Qrs. were established at Miss Stover's, in the stone house, near Narrow Passage Creek. Soon after we reached camp, Gen. Jackson sent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBBR_rudes-hill_New-Market-VA.html
The spring of 1864 opened with United States forces pressing Confederate armies defending fronts scattered throughout the Confederacy. Union Gen. Franz Sigel was assigned the task of securing the Shenandoah Valley; always one of the Civil War's mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMACV_post-appomattox-tragedy_New-Market-VA.html
On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended.Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz,and two other armed veterans of Co. D,7th Virginia Cavalry, robbed six Federalcavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock.The horses were returned the next day …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA3R_the-great-train-raid-of-1861_Strasburg-VA.html
Jackson captured engines from Martinsburg, W.VA. and had them pulled by horse teams across the roads to Strasburg, near here, they were set on rails and sent south for the Confederate cause.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9UI_signal-knob_Strasburg-VA.html
Signal Knob, the northernmost point of Three Top Mountain, overlooks Strasburg and is 2110 ft. above sea level. During the Civil War, both sides used it as a signal station, but the Confederate signal corps occupied it almost continuously from 186…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8JG_heroism-in-defeat_New-Market-VA.html
The main Union line of battle extended from here for one-half mile to the Valley Turnpike, now U.S. 11. Throughout the morning and into the afternoon, the Union force exchanged musket and cannon fire with the Confederates, who had advanced over a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8JC_good-bye-lieutenant-i-am-killed_New-Market-VA.html
In front of you is one of only two monuments erected by veterans of the battle. This one was placed by members of Woodson's Company of Missouri Cavalry. The unit followed perhaps the strangest path to this field of conflict. Captured in Mississ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8J9_the-bushong-farm_New-Market-VA.html
On June 22, 1791, Henry Bushong patented a 260-acre tract in Shenandoah County that would be home for several generations of his descendants. Henry's son, Jacob married Sarah Strickler in 1818. They took up residence in a four-room log house and b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8J2_baptism-of-fire_New-Market-VA.html
While the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute comprised one of the smallest Confederate units engaged in the Battle of New Market, they paid a disproportionately high price in their baptism of fire. Nearly one in four of the cadets were eith…
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