Dark Days in the Burnt District
In the fall of 1864, attacks by Confederate raiders and bushwhackers angered Federal officers in the Shenandoah Valley. On September 22, Union soldiers captured a hapless man named Davy Getz near Woodstock who was wearing civilian clothes and carrying a squirrel rifle. When Union Gen. George A. Custer ordered his execution as a bushwhacker, town elders pleaded with Custer for leniency, claiming that Getz had only the mind of a six-year-old. Custer ignored their pleas, and on October 1 or 2, Getz was made to dig his own grave in an orchard a hundred yards behind you and then was shot to death. Adolph Heller, a Woodstock man who had tried and failed to secure Getz's release, warned Custer, "You will sleep in a bloody grave for this."HM Number | HMAQC |
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Series | This marker is part of the Virginia Civil War Trails series |
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Placed By | Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation & Virginia Civil War Trails |
Marker Condition | No reports yet |
Date Added | Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 at 2:28pm PDT -07:00 |
UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 17S E 679793 N 4253699 |
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Decimal Degrees | 38.41346667, -78.94066667 |
Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 38° 24.808', W 78° 56.44' |
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 38° 24' 48.48" N, 78° 56' 26.40" W |
Driving Directions | Google Maps |
Area Code(s) | 540 |
Closest Postal Address | At or near 155 Main St, Dayton VA 22821, US |
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