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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO41_col-william-elisha-peters_Marion-VA.html
Col. William Elisha Peters, 21st Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A., is buried in the cemetery to your left. He was born on August 28, 1829, in Bedford County, Virginia, attending New London Academy there, then entered Emory and Henry College in 1846, gradu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO3Z_col-arthur-campbell_Marion-VA.html
Arthur Campbell, a military and political leader, was born in Augusta County in 1743. In 1758 during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), Campbell was captured by the Wyandot Indians aligned with the French and held captive for two years before escap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO3W_site-of-colonial-home_Marion-VA.html
Royal Oak, home of Arthur Campbell, Indian fighter and Revolutionary leader who settled here in 1769, stood three hundred yards south. The house was a neighborhood fort and in it, in 1832, the first court of Smyth County was held.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO3T_engagement-at-marion_Marion-VA.html
Throughout 1864, Federal raids against the Confederate infrastructure in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia attempted to destroy iron and lead mines, salt works and railroads. The Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, the Confederate lifeline to the D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO38_battle-of-marion_Marion-VA.html
Here, on December 17-18, 1864, General Stoneman, raiding to Saltville, fought an engagement with John C. Breckinridge, Confederate commander in southwest Virginia.