| 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 — 54th Pennsylvania Monument |
| | Erected to the memory of the heroic dead of the 54th Regiment, Pennsylvania Veterans Volunteer Infantry, who gave their lives in defence of their country. 1861–1865.
(brass tablet at base) At ceremonies conducted 16 September 1984, title to this monument was transferred from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the New Market Battlefield Park. The monument was originally dedicated on 25 October 1905 to the men of the 54th Pennsylvania Infantry. It now serves as a memorial to . . . — Map (db m42449) 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 — 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 — 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 — A-26 — Cavalry Engagement |
| | On 15 Nov. 1863, Col. William H. Boyd reconnoitered with a Federal cavalry and artillery detachment south from Charlestown (in present-day W.Va.) toward New Market. The next day, the force encountered Maj. Robert White’s cavalry command just north of Mount Jackson. White’s Confederates retreated fighting through the town and crossed the Shenandoah River bridge to Rude’s Hill. Realizing that White’s artillery could sweep the bridge, Boyd withdrew to a bivouac two miles north of Woodstock, . . . — Map (db m835) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — Died on the Field of Honor..." — Gravestones of VMI Cadets |
| | Of the 257 cadets from Virginia Military Institute who fought in the Battle of New Market, ten were either killed outright or later died of their wounds. Their legacy of service and sacrifice has inspired each successive generation of cadets. Since 1866, a commemorative ceremony has been held at VMI each year on May 15, the anniversary of the battle. The Corps of Cadets assembles on the parade ground, and the names of the ten New Market cadets are called. With each name, a cadet in the ranks . . . — Map (db m39855) 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 |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — A-36 — Fairfax Line |
| | Here ran the southwestern boundary of Lord Fairfax’s vast land grant, The Northern Neck. It was surveyed by Peter Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson’s father, and others in 1746. — Map (db m652) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — Gen. John Sevier — 1745-1815 |
| | Frontiersman - famed Indian fighter - Revolutionary patriot - Co-Commander Battle of King's Mountain - first Governor of Tennessee and six times Governor - first Congressman west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Founder of New Market, Va in 1765. His fur trading post stood on this spot and the logs in this cabin are from the original building. — Map (db m11698) 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 — Jackson’s 2nd Corps Established — Stonewall Dons a New Uniform |
| | Having remained with his command
in the vicinity of Winchester since the
Battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam, by
November 22, 1862, Gen. Thomas J.
“Stonewall” Jackson was again on
the march. With more than 32,000
soldiers, Jackson’s force made its
way up the snow-covered Shenan
doah Valley toward New Market and
then toward Columbia Bridge by
way of this gap.
On reaching a point atop Massanutten Mountain, sometime late
in the evening on November 23,
Jackson took the rare . . . — Map (db m16453) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — New Market Battlefield Park |
| | has been registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark pursuant to the authority vested in the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Act of 1966 [ Lower Marker : ] This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — Map (db m58953) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — Z-125 — Page County / Shenandoah County |
| | Page County. Area 322 square miles. Formed in 1831 from Shenandoah and Rockingham, and named for John Page, Governor of Virginia, 1802–1805. Luray cave is here.
Shenandoah County. Area 510 square miles. Formed in 1772 from Frederick, and first named Dunmore for Lord Dunmore, governor of Virginia, 1771–1775. In 1778 the county was renamed for the Shenandoah River. — Map (db m791) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — A-69 — Post-Appomattox Tragedy |
| | On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended.
Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz,
and two other armed veterans of Co. D,
7th Virginia Cavalry, robbed six Federal
cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock.
The horses were returned the next day to the 192d Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Rude’s Hill. Despite assurances that all was forgiven, Lt. Col. Cyrus Hussy, temporarily commanding the 192nd, later ordered the men arrested. The others escaped, but Summers and Koontz were shot without . . . — Map (db m15903) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — Z-178 — Rockingham County / Shenandoah County |
| | Rockingham County. Area 876 square miles. Formed in 1778 from Augusta, and named for the Marquis of Rockingham, British statesman. John Sevier, of Tennessee, was born in this county. In it took place the battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic, 1862.
Shenandoah County. Area 510 square miles. Formed in 1772 from Frederick, and first named Dunmore for Lord Dunmore, governor of Virginia, 1771–1775. In 1778 the county was renamed for the Shenandoah River. — Map (db m653) 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-27 — Rude’s Hill Action |
| | Rude’s Hill was reached by two divisions of Sheridan’s Union cavalry following the Confederate General Jubal A. Early, on November 22, 1864. Early promptly took position on the hill to oppose them. The cavalry, charging across the flats, were repulsed in a sharp action and fell back northward. — Map (db m50317) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — Rude's Hill — Jackson at Rude’s Hill — 1962 Valley Campaign |
| | This old house photographed during the early 20th century and still standing about 600 yards north on the west side of the Valley Pike, was occupied
at the beginning of the Civil War by a Lutheran minister, Rev. Anders R. Rude. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s small Confederate force went
into a defensive position here after retiring from the battle at Kernstown,
March 23, 1862. Confederate cavalry, commanded by Col. Turner Ashby,
kept the slowly advancing Federals at bay . . . — Map (db m836) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — A-34 — Sevier’s Birthplace |
| | Near here was born John Sevier, pioneer and soldier, September 23, 1745. He was a leader in the Indian Wars and the Battle of King’s Mountain, 1780. He was the only governor of the short-lived state of Franklin and the first governor of Tennessee. Sevier died in Georgia, September 24, 1815. — Map (db m654) HM |
| 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 — The Battle of New Market — May 15, 1864 — 1864 Valley Campaign |
| | In the spring of 1864, Union Gen. Franz Sigel marched his 10,000-man army south through the Shenandoah Valley as part of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s strategy to attack the Confederacy on several fronts simultaneously. To counter this threat, Gen. John C. Breckinridge led 4,000 Confederate troops to New Market, located on the only road over Massanutten Mountain, which divides the Valley and channels troop movements. In desperate need of soldiers, Breckinridge summoned the Corps of Cadets from . . . — Map (db m25400) HM |
| Virginia (Shenandoah County), New Market — The Bloody Cedars — "Which was done with alacrity and spirit." — 1864 Valley Campaign |
| | As the Battle of New Market unfolded on May 15, 1864, Confederate troops under Gen. John C. Breckinridge heavily assaulted the left flank of Union Gen. Franz Sigel's army. Sigel counterattacked with Gen. Julius Stahel's cavalry, which charged down the Valley Turnpike (present-day U.S. Route 11). The Confederates repulsed the attack, and Stahel's men fell back in disorder, leaving the 54th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment to anchor the Union left flank on the field in front of you. Sigel then . . . — Map (db m39856) 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 Old Home of William F. Rupp |
| | The old home of William F. Rupp who was one of the Valley's most skilled fresco painters. In the Rupp house also lived George M. Neese, the author of “Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery.” Descendants still own and occupy the house. — Map (db m558) 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 — This Rustic Pile |
| |
This rustic pile
The simple tale will tell:
It marks the spot
Where Woodson’s Heroes fell.
— Map (db m544) HM |
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