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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENG_hermon-methodist-church_Lynchburg-VA.html
Hermon Methodist Church was established in c.1870 in Appomattox County, Virginia. The church was named for the biblical Mount Hermon. It was located east of Route 24 on what is now property of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENE_the-quartermasters-glanders-stable_Lynchburg-VA.html
Horses and mules were essential to the operation of the Civil War, and bass numbers of animals were needed. Lynchburg, one of the four quartermaster depots for the Confederacy, was supplying General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1END_sinister-activities_Lynchburg-VA.html
Sinister Activities had been rumored in 1897, but great alarm spread among both Negro and White citizens when it was discovered that the body of a young woman, Ella Jamieson, supposed to be buried in Potter's Field, was instead being shipped to th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENC_professor-frank-trigg_Lynchburg-VA.html
"Frank Trigg came into this world a slave and was buried a retired college president." He was born in 1850 at the Governor's Mansion in Richmond, as his parents, Sarah and Frank Sr., served Governor John B. Floyd. At age 13 he lost an arm in a far…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENB_silas-green_Lynchburg-VA.html
Silas Green was born into slavery around the year 1845 on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. According to local legend, soon after the beginning of the Civil War, Green voluntarily enrolled in the Confederate army. His owner considered him…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENA_the-old-brick-wall_Lynchburg-VA.html
This historic brick wall is all that remains of the Cemetery's original enclosure, which was built in sections beginning in 1827, and extended almost one mile in length.
Most of the wall was demolished by the City of Lynchburg as it deteriorate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EN7_court-street-baptist-church-tragedy_Lynchburg-VA.html
On October 16, 1876, a tragic "false alarm" panic at the old Court Street Baptist Church resulted in the deaths of eight people attending a wedding reception there. One of these young women, Maria Wilson, age 17, is buried nearby.
No tombstones…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EN6_the-confederate-section_Lynchburg-VA.html
In this area are buried over 2200 Confederate soldiers from fourteen states, most of whom died in Lynchburg's numerous military hospitals during the Civil War. From the first burial on May 19, 1861, until the last on September 19, 1868, undertaker…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EN5_crippled-corps-and-vm-i-cadets-form-inner-defenses-in-old-city-cemetery_Lynchburg-VA.html
A week before the city of Lynchburg was to be invaded by 18,000 Union troops, the city lay vulnerable, unprotected by Confederate forces.
Brigadier General Francis T. Nicholls, a double amputee, who had recovered in a Lynchburg hospital, organi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EN4_lynchburgs-confederate-surgeons_Lynchburg-VA.html
Lynchburg's hospital center was staffed with over 50 military surgeons reporting for duty from all parts of the Confederacy.
The War Department appointed Lynchburg physician, William Otway Owen, as Surgeon-in-Charge of Lynchburg's large medical…