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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28VH_battle-of-cedar-creek-1864-a-war-memorial_Middletown-VA.html
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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/HM1WL8_second-battle-of-winchester-historical_Winchester-VA.html
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After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WL7_constructing-star-fort-historical_Winchester-VA.html
Union Gen. Robert H. Milroy and his division entered Winchester on January 1, 1863. The abolitionist general, who vowed to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation aggressively, soon set to work strengthening the town's defenses. His soldiers rotated…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WL6_civil-war-earthworks-historical_Winchester-VA.html
During the Civil War, armies of both sides built earthwork fortifications of varying sizes and shapes. The star fort was one of the most difficult types to construct. Although the design afforded the defenders the potential to fire into an attacki…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WL5_second-battle-of-winchester-historical_Winchester-VA.html
While Union artillery from Star Fort dueled with Confederate gunners in West Fort on June 14, 1863, Winchester's civilians fretted for their safety. Some wondered if Union Gen. Robert H. Milroy would destroy Winchester by either burning or bombard…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WL4_third-battle-of-winchester-historical_Winchester-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…