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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM101_third-battle-of-winchester_Winchester-VA.html
September 19, 1864Lieutenant General Jubal Early's Shenandoah Valley Campaign began in June of 1864. Until the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19, he more than fulfilled General Lee's hopes that the great success of 1862 could be repeated …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZY_the-cavalry-charge-at-fort-collier_Winchester-VA.html
September 19, 1864The shocking impact of the great charge and capture of Fort Collier unhinged Early's entire line of battle. Confederate troops streamed south through the streets of Winchester, Confederate artillery continued firing from Star For…
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1861-1864General Joseph E. Johnston commanded all Confederate forces in Virginia from 1861 until late in May of 1862. His initial post had been at Harpers Ferry, thought to be the key to the defense of the Shenandoah Valley. Johnston, however, bel…
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From the time of Virginia's secession from the Union on May 23, 1861, until just before the Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861, the Confederate government in Richmond recognized the importance of defending the Lower Shenandoah Valley. When Confed…
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Confederate troops constructed Fort Collier in 1861 after the evacuation of Harpers Ferry. The earthworks, which surrounded the Benjamin Stine house here, commanded the approach to Winchester on the Martinsburg and Winchester Turnpike. The fort sa…
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Just to the east, a redoubt known as Fort Collier was built by Joseph E. Johnston in 1861. Early's left rested here during the Third Battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUK_the-pritchard-house_Winchester-VA.html
The large brick dwelling before you is the Pritchard House, built by Steven C. Pritchard, Jr. and his son Samuel R. Pritchard. During the Civil War, Samuel, his wife Helen, and their two small children occupied the house. Fighting swirled around t…
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Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley), world-famous singer, lived in this house. She was born in Winchester Memorial Hospital on 8 Sept. 1932. On 21 Jan. 1957 she won Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts national television show's competition singing…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSA_the-second-battle-of-kernstown_Winchester-VA.html
Colonel James A. Mulligan's Union command of 1,800 men encamped on these heights on the night of July 23-24, 1864. When Confederate cavalry drove Union cavalry back toward Kernstown on the morning of the 24th, Mulligan deployed two cannon on this …
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At 9:00 A.M. on March 23, 1862, Confederate artillery unlimbered near the Valley Turnpike and fired on this height, called Pritchard's Hill, to begin the First Battle of Kernstown. Union artillery rolled onto these knolls and responded by discharg…