Virginia Civil War Trails
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"In the fight of Johnson's Division on last Friday I was under as warm a musketry fire as I have experienced for a good while—certainly worse than I have been in since Sharpsburg." — Lt. Col. Alexander S. "Sandie" Pendleton, CSA
"One of the s…
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On July 21, 1861, as elements of the Stonewall Brigade marched to the Manassas battlefield on the road behind you, officers converted the Pringle house (also called Ben Lomond) into a temporary field hospital. Soon wounded Confederates flooded the house and…
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On July 13, 1863, Union Col. John T. Toland led 872 officers and men ofthe 34th Regiment Mounted Ohio Volunteer Infantry from Camp Piatt,West Virginia, into Southwest Virginia to attack the railroads, telegraphs,and salt and lead mines essential to the Conf…
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Confederate authorities frequently stored arms and supplies in civilian warehouses, commercial buildings, and depots. County seats, with their commodious courthouses, jails, and offices, also were used, and Federal authorities routinely raided these places.…
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On July 13, 1863, Union Colonel John T. Toland led 872 officers and men ofthe 34th Regiment Mounted Ohio Volunteer Infantry from Camp Piatt,West Virginia, into Southwest Virginia to attack the railroads, telegraphs, and salt and lead mines essential to the …
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This is the former site of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. The monument to the "Jackson Greys" honors the regiment that was formed on the grounds of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church by Capt. (later Lieutenant Colonel) William H. Stewart who lived nearby in …
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During the Civil War, the Daniel Bowman Mill occupied this site, grinding wheat brought here by Rockingham County farmers. The county was part of the prosperous agricultural region known as the "breadbasket of the Confederacy." It was no accident that the r…
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In September 1864, U.S. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan heard rumors that Confederate forces had left the Shenandoah Valley to rejoin Gen. Robert E. Lee's army at Petersburg. Wanting to confirm this information before attacking Gen. Jubal A. Early's army, Sheridan …
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In 1864, Ellerslie stood in the middle of the Confederate defense line along Swift Creek. On May 9-10, Confederate Gens. Johnson Hagood and Bushrod Johnson, with 4,200 men, contested the advance of a much larger Federal force, composed of elements of Gen. B…
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After Union forces secured Petersburg on April 3, 1865, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant established his headquarters here at the Thomas Wallace House. He sent word to President Abraham Lincoln at City Point that Petersburg had fallen and invited Lincoln to meet him h…