Virginia Civil War Trails
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On the evening of June 15, 1864, the lead element of Union Gen. David Hunter's 18,000-man army arrived here and cam near Avenel. The main force arrived the following morning and started destroying the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad tracks, burning the depo…
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At the beginning of the war, Union commanders were uncertain of Confederate intentions and military capabilities. On June 22, 1861, civilian balloonist Thaddeus S.C. Lowe inflated his racing balloon Enterprise at the Washington Gas Company to demonstrate it…
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This was the home of Harrisonburg's first mayor, Isaac Hardesty, an apothecary. Elected in 1849, Hardesty served until 1860. His Unionist sympathies compelled him to leave for Maryland after the Civil War began. Early in the first week of May 1862, Union Ge…
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This was the home of Edward T.H. Warren, a Harrisonburg attorney. As a lieutenant in the Valley Guards, a Rockingham County militia company, Warren attended the trial and execution of John Brown in Charles Town (in present-day West Virginia) in 1859. Warren…
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The Yankee Soldier met Miss Wiseman at the town well - and married her after the war.
The Wiseman family had settled in City Point many years before Mary Catherine Wiseman married Frederick Belch in 1865. He was a Yankee soldier bivouacked along the wate…
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Following the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg in July 1863, Lynchburg's citizens became concerned about the lack of defenses around the city. Gen. Francis Nicholls, post commander, prepared a series of earthen redoubts and trenches at strategic points to t…
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These tobacco factories, built in 1845, were typical of the nineteen in Lynchburg converted into hospitals during the Civil War. Surgeon J.K. Page supervised Knight's and Miller's as divisions of General Hospital No. 2.
The Thirty-two hospitals establish…
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"With a graveyard on one side, quartermaster's glanders stable on the other, and smallpox hospital in the middle, one (is) reminded of the mortality of man." "A Confederate Surgeon's Story," Confederate Veteran, 1931, John Jay Terrell, M.D.
This Old City…
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Following Virginia's decision to secede from the Union in in April 1861, Southern troops began arriving here at the small village of Tudor Hall, which soon came to be known as Manassas Junction. This place, where the Orange & Alexandria and Manassas Gap rai…
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After the First Battle of Manassas on June 21, 1861, Confederate forces continued to hold Manassas Junction until March 1862. They evacuated Manassas and moved south in order to counter Union Gen. George B. McClellan's plans to attack Richmond. During this …