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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRT0_fort-early_Lynchburg-VA.html
Following the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg in July 1863, Lynchburg's citizens became concerned about the lack of defenses around the city. Gen. Francis Nicholls, post commander, prepared a series of earthen redoubts and trenches at strategic p…
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1898 - 1902 Erected by R.E Craighill Camp No. 11 Dept. of Virginia United Spanish- war Veterans
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA3Q_inner-defenses_Lynchburg-VA.html
Here ran the Inner line of Lynchburg defenses thrown up by General D. H. Hill in June, 1864. General John C. Breckinridge. Confronting General Hunter in the Shenandoah Valley, made a forced march to forestall Hunter. Hill constructed a shallow lin…
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Near here ran the line of inner defences located by Gen. D. H. Hill, June, 1864. He had been sent from Petersburg by Gen. Beauregard to assist Gen. Breckinridge then in command. On Gen. Early's arrival, troops were moved to the outer work.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21O_lynchburg_Lynchburg-VA.html
In early May 1864, while Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee confronted the Union Army of the Potomac west of Fredericksburg, Union Gen. U.S. Grant sent Gen. Franz Sigel's army to destroy Lee's supplies in the Shenandoah Valley. After the Union defeat …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21I_spring-hill-cemetery_Lynchburg-VA.html
During the Battle of Lynchburg on June 17-18, 1864, Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early moved his reserves into the cemetery to reinforce his lines across the Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike (Fort Ave.) at Fort Early. Before dawn on Sunday, June 19, these tr…
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Established in 1786, Lynchburg was a thriving commercial center famous for its tobacco and manufacturing industries when Fort Sumter, South Carolina was bombarded in April 1861 and the Civil War began. Lynchburg's Fair Grounds and Camp Davis immed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21A_quaker-meeting-house_Lynchburg-VA.html
From here in June 1864, Confederate cavalrymen watched Gen. David Hunter's Union army advance toward them on the Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike (Fort Ave). Hunter departed Lexington on June 14 and crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains near Peaks of Otter. Li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM218_fort-mccausland_Lynchburg-VA.html
To your right, Confederates built an earthen redoubt in 1864 to defend the strategic Virginia & Tennessee Railroad trestle over Ivy Creek. The six-gun battery of the Botetourt Artillery manned the redoubt and a position on the other side of Forest…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM217_sandusky_Lynchburg-VA.html
Union Gen. David Hunter's army reached the outskirts of Lynchburg on June 17, 1864, despite being delayed by engagements with Gen. John McCausland's Confederate cavalry. That evening, Hunter made his headquarters here at Sandusky, aware that Confe…
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