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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/HM1QOO_willa-cather-birthplace_Gore-VA.html
Here Willa Sibert Cather, the novelist, was born December 7, 1873. This community was her home until 1883, when her family moved to Nebraska. Nearby on Back Creek stands the old mill described in her novel Saphira and the Slave Girl.
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/HM1NO5_battle-of-kernstown_Winchester-VA.html
On the hill to the west, Stonewall Jackson late in the afternoon of March 23, 1862 attacked the Union force under Shields holding Winchester. After a fierce action, Jackson, who was greatly outnumbered, withdrew southward, leaving his dead on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LDJ_hampshire-county-virginia_Cross-Junction-VA.html
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Hampshire County
Oldest county; established by the Virginia Assembly, 1754. Formed from Frederick and Augusta. Lord Fairfax, owner, named it for the English shire of the same name. Ice Mountain and Hanging Rocks are among its natural wond…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HB5_battle-of-cedar-creek_Middletown-VA.html
The Battle of Cedar Creek
19 October 1864 (a.m.)
Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan Union forces established themselves on both sides of the Valley Pike, north of Cedar Creek, centered on Belle Grove.
Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early decided to send …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXYG_battle-of-cedar-creek_Middletown-VA.html
In early Oct. 1864, portions of Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's army bivouacked here on the hills and rolling farmland just north of Cedar Creek along the Valley Turnpike (present-day U.S. Rte. 11). Just before daybreak on 19 Oct., Confederat…