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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7JN_gen-john-sevier_New-Market-VA.html
Frontiersman - famed Indian fighter - Revolutionary patriot - Co-Commander Battle of King's Mountain - first Governor of Tennessee and six times Governor - first Congressman west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Founder of New Market, Va in 1765. His …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7JL_the-confederate-hospital_Mt-Jackson-VA.html
The Confederate Hospital was established at Mount Jackson under the direction of Dr. Andres Russell Meem by order of the Confederate Medical Department in Richmond, Virginia about September 15, 1861. Dr. Meem, a native of the area, was a graduate …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6JN_birthplace-of-the-ccc_Fort-Valley-VA.html
The Army with Shovels.By 1933, the Great Depression had demoralized the nation. Millions of young men were unemployed and families were starving. On March 9, 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Its purpose…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63Y_stonewalls-surprise_Strasburg-VA.html
In the spring of 1862, U.S. Army Capt. Edward Hunt, an engineer, constructed a fortification on the hill where the Strasburg water tower now stands. Hunt selected the hill "because it had an effective command over the roads, the railroad, and the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM59S_dupont-at-rudes-hill_New-Market-VA.html
Here Capt. Henry DuPont, commanding B Battery, 5th U.S.Artillery, protected Union Gen. Franz Sigel's defeated army as it retreated after the Battle ofNew Market on May 15, 1864.Confederate Gen. John C. Breckinridge had routed Sigel's forcethat aft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM59C_rudes-hill_New-Market-VA.html
This old house photographed during the early 20th century and still standing about 600 yards north on the west side of the Valley Pike, was occupiedat the beginning of the Civil War by a Lutheran minister, Rev. Anders R. Rude. Gen. Thomas J. "Ston…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM592_cavalry-engagement_New-Market-VA.html
On 15 Nov. 1863, Col. William H. Boyd reconnoitered with a Federal cavalry and artillery detachment south from Charlestown (in present-day W.Va.) toward New Market. The next day, the force encountered Maj. Robert White's cavalry command just north…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4XB_mcneills-last-charge_New-Market-VA.html
In the predawn darkness of 3 Oct. 1864, Capt. John Hanson McNeill led thirty of his Partisan Rangers, including local resident Joseph I. Triplett, against a hundred-man detachment of the 8th Ohio Cavalry Regiment that was guarding the Meems Bottom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4WQ_our-soldiers-cemetery_Mt-Jackson-VA.html
The Mount Jackson Confederate Hospital's Cemetery,now called Our Soldiers Cemetery, was dedicated on May 10, 1866 the third anniversary of Stonewall Jackson's death. The "Memorial and Decoration Day" organized by the local ladies was one of the fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4WF_the-confederate-hospital_Mt-Jackson-VA.html
The Confederate hospital was built here under the direction of Dr. Andrew Russell Meem, by order of the Confederate Medical Department in Sept. 1861. The hospital consisted of three two-story buildings, each 150 feet long, accommodating 500 patien…