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Organized in 1858 as the National Artillery, this unit changed its name to the Troup Light Artillery in honor of the former Georgia governor George W. Troup. It became a part of Cobb's Legion when the war began. During the Maryland Campaign, the b…
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In June 1863, Federal troops marched through Jefferson as the Army of the Potomac pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, a menacing force to the west—but where was it headed? Fearing that Lee would push through the gaps in S…
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1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer's Battery
September 14, 1862
Late in the afternoon the brigade advanced from the fields north and west of Burkittsville, charged up the mountain, carried this point and followed the enemy to the west …
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Just before the Confederate line along Mountain Church Road gave way, Brigadier General Howell Cobb arrived in Crampton's Gap with his Georgia and North Carolina troops. After meeting with Colonel Thomas Munford, who had been directing the battle,…
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Captain R. Preston Chew organized Chew's Ashby Artillery, the first "horse artillery" in the Confederate army, in November 1861. He named it for Colonel Turner Ashby. Chew's battery bosted a 3 in ordinance rifle, a 12-pounder smoothbore howitzer, …
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The first settlers in this area cleared their farm land and raised their families along two Indian trails that crossed here. Joshua Harley, one of these pioneers and a veteran of the American Revolution, started the settlement's first dry goods st…
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Confederate ForcesCol. T. T. Munford, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, Commanding, Munford's Brigade,2nd & 12th Virginia Cavalry. Mahone's Brigade, Lt. Col. Wm. A. Parham, 41st Virginia, Commanding. 6th, 12th, 16th, 41st, and 61st Virginia Infantry (Septembe…
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(Front Side): The Mell Rifles, Co. D, Cobb's Legion Infantry, was raised in Athens, GA. in July 1861, by Patrick Hues Mell, Baptist minster and Vice Chancellor of the University of Georgia. After Mell resigned due to his wife's death, Thomas U. Ca…
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On September 4, 1862, General Robert E. Lee, hoping to shorten the war by winning a decisive victory on Northern soil, crossed the Potomac River into Maryland. Lee planned to draw the Army of the Potomac through South Mountain into …
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In September, 1862, after the second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee led his victorious Confederates on their first invasion of the North.
At Frederick, Md. he boldly divided his army. Three columns (No. 1) were to surround and capture …