Markers related to the Battle of Cool Springs and Castleman's Ferry Use the “First >>” button above to see these markers in sequence.| Virginia (Clarke County), Berryville — Battle of Cool Spring — Sharp Action at the Shenandoah River — 1864 Valley Campaign | | | To draw Union troops from Petersburg to Washington, Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early attacked the capital’s defenses on July 11, 1864. He then withdrew to the Shenandoah Valley, where he had left Gen. John C. Breckinridge’s division to hold the Shenandoah River fords. Union Gen. George Crook, pursuing Early, decided to make a reconnaissance in force across the river near hear on July 18 after his cavalry was repulsed the previous day, a Sunday.
Guided by a Confederate deserter well . . . — Map (db m1201) | | Virginia (Clarke County), Berryville — Battle of Cool Spring | | | Battle of Cool Spring July 18, 1864 Early & Crook —— — Map (db m4601) | | Virginia (Clarke County), Berryville — T–9 — Castleman’s Ferry Fight | | | Three miles North in July 1864, General Jubal Early’s army, returning from his raid on Washington, was attacked by Federal units which forced a passage of the river. On July 18, Colonel Joseph Thoburn led his troops against the Confederates but was driven back across the river. Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States, commanded a Federal brigade in the action. — Map (db m1203) | | Virginia (Clarke County), Berryville — T-17 — The Retreat | | | One and a half miles north is The Retreat, home to three distinguished generations of the Parker family. Thomas Parker, a general in the War of 1812, constructed this imposing Federal-style house in 1799. Richard Parker, his nephew, was a U.S. Senator, justice of the state Supreme Court of Appeals, and jury member at the trial of Aaron Burr. His son, Richard Elliot Parker, served in the U.S. House of Representatives and presided as a federal judge at the trial of John Brown. During the Civil . . . — Map (db m1195) |
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