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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAY2_confederate-breastworks-interpretive-trail_Savannah-VA.html
You are standing in the middle of what was once Fort Edward Johnson. Confederate soldiers built this fort in 1862 under the command of Brigadier general Edward Johnson, a career officer from Virginia.
Look to your right, and then left across th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAY1_the-shenandoah-mountain-pass-is-grand-indeed_Savannah-VA.html
As "Stonewall" Jackson's Army passed through the gap on their way down to McDowell, Virginia one soldier wrote:
Tuesday 13th May 1862
I have been struck with the wild & mountain scenery. The Shenandoah Mt. Pass is grand indeed, you asend to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAQ9_tinkling-spring-church_Fishersville-VA.html
This was first the Southern Branch of the "Triple Forks of Shenandoah" Congregation, which called John Craig as pastor in 1741. A church was completed here about 1748; two other buildings have succeeded it. Beginning with 1777, James Waddel, the n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMACW_james-edward-hanger_Churchville-VA.html
Born near Churchville on 25 Feb. 1843, Hanger joined the Churchville Cavalry at Phillipi, W.Va., on 2 June 1861, where the next morning he was wounded. The resulting amputation of his leg was probably the first of the Civil War. He convalesced at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAA7_fort-edward-johnson_Due-West-VA.html
Confederate troops, the remnant of the Army of the Northwest commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson, constructed this fortification about 1 Apr. 1862 to protect the Shenandoah Valley, the "Breadbasket of the Confederacy." Federal troop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAA4_west-view_Swoope-VA.html
In 1862, West View was a village of about 15 buildings including a flour mill, post office, store, wagon shop and saw mills. About 3,000 soldiers camped in the surrounding fields from April 20 to May 6.
Confederates under Gen. Edward "Alleghany…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8TV_george-caleb-bingham_Grottoes-VA.html
George Caleb Bingham, a renowned American genre painter of the 19th century, was born in a frame house just north of here on 20 March 1811. Bingham moved to Missouri in 1819, where he began painting portraits in the 1830s and later specialized in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7ZN_rockingham-county-augusta-county_Weyers-Cave-VA.html
Rockingham County. Area 876 square miles. Formed in 1778 from Augusta, and named for the Marquis of Rockingham, British statesman. John Seiver, of Tennessee, was born in this county. In it took place the battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic, 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7OO_augusta-military-academy_Fort-Defiance-VA.html
Soon after the Civil War ended in 1865, Confederate veteran Charles S. Roller began teaching at the Old Stone Church nearby at Ft. Defiance. By 1874 he had founded Augusta Male Academy and incorporated military discipline into its classical curric…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7MD_willow-spout_Verona-VA.html
Here stood, from the early 19th century until the mid-1900s, the tavern and stagecoach stop first owned by Peter Hanger. In 1848 its second proprietor, Samuel Harnsbarger, planted a willow tree in a spring here, across the newly-constructed Valley…