| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — The Battle of New Market |
| | The Battle of New Market was fought here Sunday morning, May 15, 1864. The Confederates under Gen. J. C. Breckinridge were victorious over the Federals under Gen. Franz Sigel. The decisive incident of the battle was the heroic capture of the Federal battery by the V.M.I. cadets. — Map (db m551) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — Battle of New Market |
| | May 15, 1864. General U.S. Grant's plan to defeat the Confederacy in 1864 called for a raid by General G. Crook into southwestern Virginia. General F. Sigel, to keep the Confederates from concentrating against Crook, was to advance down Shenandoah Valley from the Harpers Ferry area. Skirmishing frequently with General J.D. Imboden's cavalrymen. Sigel's column reached New Market on May 14. During the night, Imboden was reinforced by General J.C. Brekinridge's command. On the 15th, after a . . . — Map (db m553) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — A 28 — Battle of New Market |
| | On the hills to the north took place the Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864. The Union army, under General Franz Sigel, faced southwest. John C. Breckinridge, once Vice-President of the United States, commanded the Confederates. Colonel Scott Shipp commanded the Cadet Corps of the Virginia Military Institute, which distinguished itself, capturing a battery. The battle ended in Sigel's retreat northward. — Map (db m554) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — Baptism of Fire — VMI Cadet Casualties in the Battle of New Market |
| | While the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute comprised one of the smallest Confederate units engaged in the Battle of New Market, they paid a disproportionately high price in their baptism of fire. Nearly one in four of the cadets were either killed or wounded during the fighting, resulting in the third-highest casualty rate in Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge’s army. In addition to 45 cadets who would survive their wounds, ten cadets were either killed outright or would die after the . . . — Map (db m13186) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — “Good-bye, Lieutenant, I am killed.” — Woodson’s Missouri Cavalry in the Battle of New Market |
| | In front of you is one of only two monuments erected by veterans of the battle. This one was placed by members of Woodson’s Company of Missouri Cavalry. The unit followed perhaps the strangest path to this field of conflict. Captured in Mississippi in 1862, the men were exchanged at City Point, Virginia a year later. In Richmond, some 70 officers and men were designated as Co. A, 1st Missouri Cavalry under the command of twenty-one-year-old Capt. Charles H. Woodson. The Missourians were . . . — Map (db m13197) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — This Rustic Pile |
| |
This rustic pile
The simple tale will tell:
It marks the spot
Where Woodson’s Heroes fell.
— Map (db m544) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — The Bushong Farm — Caught in the Crossfire |
| | On June 22, 1791, Henry Bushong patented a 260-acre tract in Shenandoah County that would be home for several generations of his descendants. Henry’s son, Jacob married Sarah Strickler in 1818. They took up residence in a four-room log house and began a family that would grow to include four boys and two girls. In 1825 Jacob Bushong built this vernacular Federal-style home. An 1852 expansion added double porches attached on the north end to provide extra room for the growing family. The . . . — Map (db m13193) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — The Shirley House — A Legacy of Service |
| | In 1875, Confederate veteran Christian Shirley constructed this brick house on the site of his family's former home, which had burned two years earlier. The Shirleys were longtime residents of Shenandoah County who had farmed their 153 ares since the late 1700s. When the Civil War began in 1861, Christian Shirley, though a physician, joined the 136th Virginia Militia and eventually rose to the rank of major. The Shirley property was traversed by both Union and Confederate forces during the . . . — Map (db m7346) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — Rude’s Hill |
| | Stonewall Jackson’s camp ground April 2–16, 1862; his headquarters at the foot of this hill. Colonel John Francis Neff, Commander 33rd Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, born and buried near here. — Map (db m740) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — Rude’s Hill — Knoll of Refuge and Attack — 1864 Valley Campaign |
| | The spring of 1864 opened with United States forces pressing Confederate armies defending fronts scattered throughout the Confederacy. Union Gen. Franz Sigel was assigned the task of securing the Shenandoah Valley; always one of the Civil War’s most hotly contested areas. On the last day of April 1864,
Sigel, with 9,000 men and 28 guns, marched south from Martinsburg. By May 11, Sigel’s advance ran into Confederates posted at Rude’s Hill under the command of a Maryland
Confederate, Capt. T. . . . — Map (db m17327) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — A Genuine Relic |
| | This very post was struck by a 3 inch rifle shell fired by Snow’s Maryland Battery in the Battle of New Market fought between General John C. Breckinridge and General Franz Sigel on the 15th of May 1864. When the shell struck, General Breckinridge was sitting on his horse in the middle of the Pike, about 5 yards from this post and was in the act of raising his field glass to make an observation of the enemy’s position, his staff being grouped a few yards in the rear. The battery that fired the . . . — Map (db m557) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — Heroism in Defeat — Captain Henry A. DuPont and Sergeant James M. Burns |
| | The main Union line of battle extended from here for one-half mile to the Valley Turnpike, now U.S. 11. Throughout the morning and into the afternoon, the Union force exchanged musket and cannon fire with the Confederates, who had advanced over a mile north from Shirley’s Hill to a fence along Jacob Bushong’s orchard. About 3 PM, Confederate Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge sensed that the tide of battle had turned. He ordered an advance, with the cadets from VMI in the center. As the . . . — Map (db m13203) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — DuPont at Rude’s Hill — “I had to depend entirely upon myself ... ” — 1864 Valley Campaign |
| | 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 of
New Market on May 15, 1864.
Confederate Gen. John C. Breckinridge had routed Sigel’s force
that afternoon in an engagement made famous by the participation of 247 cadets from Virginia Military Institute. Arriving on the battlefield about
two miles south of this location as the Federals began to withdraw, DuPont immediately
deployed his . . . — Map (db m838) HM |
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