| Virginia (Shenandoah County), Edinburg — AB 2 — Civil War Action in Edinburg | | | During Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's 1862 Valley campaign, Confederate Col. Turner Ashby's cavalry and Chew's Battery halted Union Maj Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's steady advance southward. Ashby engaged Union forces 28 times in April along Stony Creek and the Valley Pike. Confederate guns located on Cemetery Hill to the southwest, dueled with Union batteries on Academy Hill directly across the center of Edinburg. In early October 1864, during their burning of the Shenandoah Valley, . . . — Map (db m23017) HM | | Virginia (Shenandoah County), Edinburg — Edinburg Mill — Saved During “The Burning” — 1864 Valley Campaign | | | In 1850, George P. Grandstaff announced the opening of the large water-powered grist mill here nearly two years after construction began. This large facility competed with the Whissen Mill also on Stony Creek nearer the center of Edinburg. These two mills, together with the bridge across Stony Creek, were important components of this small Valley town. During September 1864, Federal Gen. Philip H. Sheridan began “The Burning” – a campaign against the resources of the . . . — Map (db m25382) HM | | Virginia (Shenandoah County), Edinburg — The Stony Creek Line — “We Shelled the Yanks and the Yanks Shelled Us” — 1862 Valley Campaign | | | On March 28, 1862, just 2 days after his appointment to serve as cartographer on the staff of Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Jedediah Hotchkiss reported the Valley Army’s position at Narrow Passage Creek (four miles north of here) to be “unfavorable for defense.” Acting on that advice, Jackson moved his infantry to Rude’s Hill, two miles south of Mt. Jackson and directed Col. Turner Ashby to hold “the line of Stony Creek.” On April 1, a section of Capt. . . . — Map (db m25375) HM | | Virginia (Shenandoah County), Edinburg — The Stover - McGinnis House — “Make Me a Map of the Valley” — 1862 Valley Campaign | | | March 26, 1862: “In the morning our battalion was ordered back to Narrow Passage, … near the rest of the army. Hd. Qrs. were established at Miss Stover’s, in the stone house, near Narrow Passage Creek. Soon after we reached camp, Gen. Jackson sent me a message that he wished to see me. I promptly reported, when he said, after some general conversation about my topographical work in Northwestern Virginia last year, “I want you to make me a map of the Valley, from Harper’s Ferry to . . . — Map (db m22746) HM |
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