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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC3_attack-at-goose-creek-bridge_Middleburg-VA.html
Leapfrogging westward in a delaying action against advancing Union cavalry June 21, 1863, the rear guard of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, commanded by Gen. Wade Hampton, took up a strong position on the steep ridge just behind you. From there tw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC2_middleburg_Middleburg-VA.html
During the Gettysburg Campaign in June 1863, Middleburg was the scene of major cavalry operations. On June 17, 1863, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's small force, charged with screening Gen. Robert E. Lee's infantry moving north and west of the Blue Ridge Mou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1_battle-of-aldie_Aldie-VA.html
(East Side of Marker)Facing the Confederate Position.On the afternoon of June 17, 1863, cavalry from the Army of the Potomac under General Alfred Pleasonton and the Army of Northern Virginia under General JEB Stuart battled each other in 94-degree…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBY_leesburg_Leesburg-VA.html
"Leesburg! Paradise of the youthful warrior! Land of excellent edibles and beautiful maidens!" — so wrote a Confederate artilleryman in late 1861. A year later, a northern correspondent found Leesburg a weary town full of battle-scarred buil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBX_guilford-signal-station_Sterling-VA.html
During the Civil War, signal stations served as early warning posts, observation points, and communication centers. On June 19, 1863, 10,000-15,000 Union troops commanded by Gen. John Fullerton Reynolds, I Corps, Army of the Potomac, marched along…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBR_old-stone-church-site_Leesburg-VA.html
One block north on Cornwall Street is the site of the first Methodist-owned property in America. Lot 50 was deeded to the Methodist Society in Leesburg on May 11, 1766. In 1778, the Sixth American Conference of Methodists met there, the first such…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBC_balls-bluff-masked-battery_Leesburg-VA.html
Two hundred yards to your right are the remains of a small earthwork that may have been part of a masked (concealed) battery which played an important role in the Battle of Ball's Bluff on October 21, 1861. The battery commanded the road from Edwa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAO_balls-bluff-masked-battery_Leesburg-VA.html
Nearby is the likely site of the Confederate "masked battery" (concealed artillery) that was an object of Federal concern early in the Civil War. On 21 Oct. 1861, elements of the 13th Mississippi infantry near there engaged 35 horsemen of the 3rd …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAJ_aldie-mill_Aldie-VA.html
In the 1800s and early 1900s Aldie Mill reverberated with the rhythmic sounds of waterwheels, millstones, and farmers chatting with the miller about the weather and their crops. Charles Fenton Mercer located the grist mill here to capitalize on ne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA5_mercers-home_Aldie-VA.html
Aldie was the home of Charles Fenton Mercer (born 1778, died 1858), liberal statesman. Mercer was a congressman (1817-1839) and a member of the Virginia constitutional convention of 1829-30, in which he advocated manhood suffrage. His attempt in 1…