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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BSV_a-rich-prize_Middletown-VA.html
Belle Grove was Union headquarters, and thus was surrounded by hundreds of supply wagons, ambulances and tents. As the Confederate advance neared the plantation manor house there was a scramble to evacuate them to safely. Most escaped capture. The…
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27NI_bearing-the-brunt_Middletown-VA.html
On October 15, 1907, veterans of the 128th New York Regiment met on the Cedar Creek battlefield to dedicate the monument to their unit. These men, along with the rest of the 19th Corps, had borne the brunt of the Confederate attack against their p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27NE_eve-of-battle_Middletown-VA.html
On the night of October 18, 1864, tents sheltering part of General Philip Sheridan's 32,000 strong Union Army of the Shenandoah blanketed the fields before you. Numerous supply wagons stood around Belle Grove. Above the banks of Cedar Creek, more …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27N0_128th-regt-n-y-s-v-i-a-war-memorial_Middletown-VA.html
In Memory of
The Men of This Regiment
Who Lost Their Lives at the Battle
of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864
Erected by
Their Comrades and Friends
Dedicated in 1907
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S08_cedar-creek-battlefield-and-belle-grove_Middletown-VA.html
Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark under the jurisdiction of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935. This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QB9_union-camps_Middletown-VA.html
Federal wagons and teams were in camp, close to and along the pike, while the shelter tents of the soldiers were arranged close to the earthworks themselves. By 8 A.M. on 19 October 1864, the area was filled with withdrawing units and individuals,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HJ5_vermont-at-cedar-creek_Middletown-VA.html
Vermont soldiers played an important role in the Union victory at Cedar Creek. In a desperate stand made to slow the early morning onslaught of confederate Jubal Early's army, the Eighth Vermont Regiment lost 110 of its 164 men engaged. The First…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HJ4_the-battle-of-cedar-creek_Middletown-VA.html
In 1870 the Vermont Legislature commissioned a painting for the State House by artist Julian Scott to commemorate the valor of the state's Civil War soldiers. The Battle of Cedar Creek, in which more Vermont regiments were under fire than any ot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HCZ_battle-of-cedar-creek_Middletown-VA.html
(Preface): The fertile Shenandoah Valley was the "Breadbasket of the Confederacy" as well as an avenue of invasion. Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early's march north and his raid on Washington, D.C., in June-July 1864 alerted Union Gen. Ulysses S. Gra…