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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSA_the-second-battle-of-kernstown_Winchester-VA.html
Colonel James A. Mulligan's Union command of 1,800 men encamped on these heights on the night of July 23-24, 1864. When Confederate cavalry drove Union cavalry back toward Kernstown on the morning of the 24th, Mulligan deployed two cannon on this …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS9_the-first-battle-of-kernstown_Winchester-VA.html
At 9:00 A.M. on March 23, 1862, Confederate artillery unlimbered near the Valley Turnpike and fired on this height, called Pritchard's Hill, to begin the First Battle of Kernstown. Union artillery rolled onto these knolls and responded by discharg…
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The low, marshy ground stretching from here to the distant road lay uncontested through the five-hour artillery duel that opened the First Battle of Kernstown. The scene changed dramatically at 2:00 P.M. when 900 Virginians marched toward this pos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS3_the-second-battle-of-kernstown_Winchester-VA.html
Late in the afternoon on July 24, 1864, 1,800 Union soldiers led by Colonel James A. Mulligan fell back to this lane. Major General John B. Gordon's Confederate force attacked from the ground beyond Opequon Church. Mulligan held off Gordon briefly…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRM_the-first-battle-of-kernstown_Winchester-VA.html
The First Battle of Kernstown, fought by 10,000 Americans on March 23, 1862, was the first battle waged in the Shenandoah Valley. Throughout the morning, sixteen Union cannon crowned the knolls of Pritchard's Hill (the high ground immediately nort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHY_clark-county-frederick-county_Winchester-VA.html
West Facing Side: Clark County. Area 171 Square Miles. — Formed in 1836 from Frederick and added to from Warren. Named for George Rogers Clark, conqueror of the Northwest. Lord Fairfax and General Danial Morgan, Revolutionary Hero lived in t…