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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Winchester, Virginia
Winchester is the county seat for Frederick County
Winchester is in Frederick County
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Time: Late Afternoon
Standing on this spot on the afternoon of September 19, 1864, you would have witnessed — about a mile to your front — one of the most spectacular scenes of the Civil War... and one of the largest cavalry charges in the . . . — — Map (db m155040) HM
Time: Mid-Afternoon
At 3 pm, Union Gen. George Crook advanced Col. Isaac Duval's division through the fields of the Huntsberry Farm on the north bank of Red Bud Run, which you can see directly across from you. On this side of the run, . . . — — Map (db m159418) HM
These native limestone steps are in their original position and mark the main entrance to a 40' x 60' stone church built on this site in 1790. The entrance was in the center of its east wall with the pulpit area against the west wall. This church . . . — — Map (db m2634) HM
General Richard S. Ewell with 14,000 Confederates defeated General Robert H. Milroy with 6,900 Federals. Prior to his second invasion of the North, Lee sent Ewell to Winchester to clear the Valley of Federals. Dividing his forces, Ewell on June 14th . . . — — Map (db m2518) HM
In the late summer of 1864 General Philip H. Sheridan with 41,000 Federals was ordered to take the vital Shenandoah Valley. Opposing this force was a Confederate army of 18,000 under General Jubal A. Early stationed north and east of Winchester. On . . . — — Map (db m155165) HM
You're standing in the middle of what was the Huntsberry Farm. The 400-acre farm included 300 highly productive "improved” acres. Much of that productivity came from the labor of the enslaved who were owned by the Huntsberrys.
Unfortunately, . . . — — Map (db m204223) HM
Time: Late Morning
(sidebar)
Six Confederate cannon were positioned here during the battle, erupting with flame and smoke as they sent a rain of deadly shells across Red Bud Run. The noise would have been deafening. This was one of . . . — — Map (db m159159) HM
Time: Early Afternoon
You're standing where much of the 114th New York sacrificed itself to save the Union line from complete collapse.
When the initial Union attack collapsed and Gen. Cuvier Grover's division fell back in chaos and . . . — — Map (db m204203) HM
Near here, the Confederate General Stephen D. Ramseur was attacked by General William W. Averell and pushed back toward Winchester, July 20, 1864. — — Map (db m12091) HM
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During the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19, 1864, it was near this spot that Brig. Gen. Battle's Alabama Brigade reached their farthest advance.
Erected by the family of CDR. Craig A. Morin USNR (Ret.) 2019 . . . — — Map (db m155706) WM
Time: Late Morning
Beyond these trees lies the Regency Lakes housing development. During the battle, that area — at the time a mixture
of woodlots, plowed fields, fences, and broken country — saw some of the deadliest fighting of the day. . . . — — Map (db m204208) HM
General James Shields with 7,000 Federals defeated Stonewall Jackson with 3,500 Confederates. Jackson's object was to create a diversion which would prevent troops being sent to McClellan for the attack on Richmond. He arrived south of Kernstown in . . . — — Map (db m33024) HM
On the hill to the west, Stonewall Jackson late in the afternoon of March 23, 1862 attacked the Union force under Shields holding Winchester. After a fierce action, Jackson, who was greatly outnumbered, withdrew southward, leaving his dead on the . . . — — Map (db m3150) HM
Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early attacked the defenses of Washington, D.C., in July 1864, then retreated to the Shenandoah Valley. Union Gen. Horatio G. Wright pursued him, and after a sharp fight and Confederate victory at Cool Spring on July 18, . . . — — Map (db m13988) HM
Time: Late Morning
The field behind you was a wooded lot known as the Second Woods. When Sheridan attacked at 11:40 am, his front line drove the opposing Confederates through those woods.
On the high ground immediately west of the . . . — — Map (db m204200) HM
Time: Late Afternoon
The fields in front of you are part of the Hackwood Farm Late on the afternoon of September 19, Gen. George Crook's little Army of West Virginia swept Confederate Gen. John B. Gordon's division and Col. George Patton's . . . — — Map (db m244286) HM
This statue of Buzzy the Hornet is given in honor of
President Emeritus James A. Davis &
Janet C. Davis '85
by the generosity of the James R. Wilkins Charitable Trust
President Davis served Shenandoah University from 1982 to . . . — — Map (db m247811) HM
In Memory of
Robert Young Conrad
Captain Co. I, 116th Inf. 29th Division
Son of
Major Holmes and Georgia Byran Conrad
who was mortally wounded while
leading a charge on a machine gun
nest at Ormont Farm in the Meuse . . . — — Map (db m136364) WM
The fort on the hilltop to the southwest, known as Star Fort, was taken by Colonel Schoonmaker of Sheridan’s Army in the Battle of September 19, 1864. — — Map (db m2275) HM
During the Civil War, armies of both sides built earthwork fortifications of varying sizes and shapes. The star fort was one of the most difficult types to construct. Although the design afforded the defenders the potential to fire into an attacking . . . — — Map (db m100976) HM
Clark County. Area 171 Square Miles. — Formed in 1836 from Frederick and added to from Warren. Named for George Rogers Clark, conqueror of the Northwest. Lord Fairfax and General Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Hero, lived in this . . . — — Map (db m156734) HM
This road, along which many of his skirmishes took place, is named for Colonel John Singleton Mosby, commander of the 43rd Battalion of the Confederate Partisan Rangers. Their activities in this area helped keep the Confederate cause alive in . . . — — Map (db m2668) HM
Union Gen. Robert H. Milroy and his division entered Winchester on January 1, 1863. The abolitionist general, who vowed to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation aggressively, soon set to work strengthening the town's defenses. His soldiers rotated . . . — — Map (db m100975) HM
Time: Early Afternoon
You're standing at the point of the pivotal Confederate counterattack that dramatically changed the course of the battle.
By 12:30 pm, the tide of the battle had turned in favor of the Union. The Confederate . . . — — Map (db m244288) HM
The fort on the hilltop to the north is one of a chain of defenses commanding the crossings of the Opequon. It was constructed by Milroy in 1863. — — Map (db m80324) HM
Madison S. Briscoe, biologist, was raised in this house, attended the local Black school, and earned degrees from Storer College and Lincoln, Columbia,and Catholic Universities. He taught at Storer, where he co-founded the pre-medical program, and . . . — — Map (db m201481) HM
Time: Mid-Afternoon
By mid-afternoon, this area was swarming with Union troops preparing to attack across Red Bud Run, which les less than 200 yards down the slope in front of you.
By that time, the battle had reached a stalemate, and . . . — — Map (db m204196) HM
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On September 18, 1864, Confederate Gen. Jubal Early, commander of Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley, was in Martinsburg, West Virginia, 23 miles north of here, with half of his army. While there, he learned that Union . . . — — Map (db m155062) HM
The Shenandoah Valley's strategic location and rich farmland caused it to be the scene of two major Civil War campaigns that comprised hundreds of battles and skirmishes. Many Valley farms, like Rose Hill, became battlefields or campgrounds . . . — — Map (db m3498) HM
Was fought here Sunday, March 23, 1862 Confederates under Gen. T.J. “Stonewall” Jackson attacked Federals under Gen. James Shields. The fighting was chiefly west of the road and continued from early afternoon until nightfall. When Jackson retired . . . — — Map (db m2635) HM
Here Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and his army, early on the morning of 25 May 1862, defeated Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Bank’s forces during Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley campaign. Banks, outnumbered and outflanked, hastily . . . — — Map (db m2596) HM
Confederate troops constructed Fort Collier in 1861 after the evacuation of Harpers Ferry. The earthworks, which surrounded the Benjamin Stine house here, commanded the approach to Winchester on the Martinsburg and Winchester Turnpike. The fort saw . . . — — Map (db m2492) HM
General Joseph E. Johnston commanded all Confederate forces in Virginia from 1861 until late in May of 1862. His initial post had been at Harpers Ferry, thought to be the key to the defense of the Shenandoah Valley. Johnston, however, believed that . . . — — Map (db m2508) HM
Just to the east, a redoubt known as Fort Collier was built by Joseph E. Johnston in 1861. Early’s left rested here during the Third Battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864. — — Map (db m2481) HM
Fort Collier is a Confederate earthwork fortification constructed in 1861, the site of the great Federal cavalry charge on September 19, 1864 that ended the Third Battle of Winchester. The Fort Collier Civil War Center, Inc., purchased this ten acre . . . — — Map (db m159482) HM
Time: Early Afternoon
You're standing at the fence line where Union troops stood and fought to hold off the advancing Confederates.
After the initial success of the Union attack at 11:40 am, the tables had turned when a Confederate . . . — — Map (db m159434) HM
General Daniel Morgan. Morgan used this road in traveling from his home, “Saratoga,” to Winchester. He was a frontiersman, Indian fighter and the commander of Morgan’s famous riflemen in the Revolution. He won glory at Quebec and Saratoga, . . . — — Map (db m2290) HM
In Mar. 1748, George Washington first visited Winchester, then known as Fredericktown, as a surveyor for Lord Fairfax. Washington purchased property in Winchester in 1753 and was an unsuccessful candidate for a House of Burgesses seat here in 1755. . . . — — Map (db m2663) HM
Time: Late Morning
You're standing where the First Woods ended and the Middle Field began at the time of the battle. Union commander Gen. Philip H. Sheridan assigned Gen. William H. Emory's 19th Corps to attack in this sector of the . . . — — Map (db m204218) HM
Time: Mid-Afternoon
350 yards in front of you is the Hackwood House, constructed in 1777 by John Smith, a Winchester area politician and militia leader. Hessian prisoners of war from the Battle of Saratoga hewed stone from a nearby rock . . . — — Map (db m204199) HM
One mile east is the site of Hackwood Estate House, built in 1777 by General John Smith. Documents reveal that the Hackwood House caught fire during the Third Battle of Winchester. Union troops used the buildings on the site for a hospital, . . . — — Map (db m168409) HM
On March 23, 1862, the opening conflict of the famous Valley Campaign began on the adjoining Glass and Pritchard farms. You are visiting the Glass Farm called Rose Hill. The neighboring Pritchard Farm is 1½ miles to the southeast (right) of where . . . — — Map (db m154721) HM
Friend
Physician
Colonel US Army
He walked this ground
and advised
on its interpretation
Placed by Sharon, Justine
and his friends from
the Class of 1962
Damascus, MD
"FIGMO” 1998 — — Map (db m204198) WM
In Memory of the many soldiers of the Revolution interred at Opequon Church of whom only seven are known.
Major John Gilkeson •
Captain William Chipley •
Captain Samuel Gilkeson •
Captain James Simrall •
Captain Samuel Vance • . . . — — Map (db m2633) WM
John H. Rutherford was born about 1820. He acquired approximately 275 acres here between 1843 and 1848 from the heirs of John Carter. About May 24, 1849, Rutherford married Camilla C. Baker. At first, the couple lived with Mrs. Susan Pitman Carter, . . . — — Map (db m14028) HM
Around this site and a mile to the west occurred two major battles of the Civil War. First Kernstown March 23, 1862 Stonewall Jackson attacked what appeared to be a withdrawing federal force led by federal Br. Gen. Shields. Desperate . . . — — Map (db m2632) HM
Thomas Fairfax (1693-1781), sixth Baron Fairfax of Cameron, was the proprietor of the Northern Neck Proprietary, a vast landholding that lay between the Rappahannock and the Potomac Rivers, and extended to the Blue Ridge. Born in England, he came . . . — — Map (db m2299) HM
From the time of Virginia’s secession from the Union on May 23, 1861, until just before the Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861, the Confederate government in Richmond recognized the importance of defending the Lower Shenandoah Valley. When . . . — — Map (db m192240) HM
Dedicated to the
gallant men from the
State of Maine
who served in
Major General Philip Sheridan's
Army of the Shenandoah
at the
Third Battle of Winchester
September 19, 1864.
Sixth Army Corps
Brig Gen George W.
Getty's . . . — — Map (db m204204) WM
Near this spot around 1:00 P.M. on Sept. 19, 1864, Maj. Gen. Robert E. Rodes fell mortally wounded while ordering Brig. Gen. Battle’s Alabama Brigade to counterattack a gap in the Union line. Rodes' last words to the Alabamians were . . . — — Map (db m244287) HM WM
Time: Early Afternoon
You're standing where Col. Edward Molineux's brigade was positioned early on the afternoon of the battle — with a wave of Confederates advancing towards them across the ground in front of you.
"I plainly saw the . . . — — Map (db m204205) HM
North Carolina remembers with honor her gallant sons who fought in defense of home and country in the Army of the Valley District, commanded by Lt. Gen. Jubal Early at the Battle of Third Winchester, September 19, 1864. Twenty-one regiments of . . . — — Map (db m158717) WM
As Southern units retreated and resistance fell apart, Northern victory was assured. Jackson found himself surrounded by a disorderly retreat of his soldiers. In the growing dark, a few fresh Southern units made gallant attempts to cover the . . . — — Map (db m3507) HM
Early Years This historic church was established by Scotch-Irish and German settlers who migrated from eastern Pennsylvania in the early 1730’s. William Hoge donated two acres of land for a meeting house, and an additional two acres for a . . . — — Map (db m122175) HM
Early Years
This historic church was established by Scotch-Irish and German settlers who migrated from eastern Pennsylvania in the early 1730s. William Hoge donated an additional two acres for a burying ground Two log and two stone houses of . . . — — Map (db m159149) HM
Opequon Village
Has been placed on the
National Register
Of Historic Places
By the United States
Department Of The Interior
homestead of the
Glass and Cartmell families from 1736
on the Great Road charted in . . . — — Map (db m140363) HM
On May 2, 1861, after hearing that their home state of Virginia had seceded from the Union, John Hudson Petus, his younger cousin John Overton Pettus, and four other cousins from the Eubank family enlisted in the Keysville Guards as privates for . . . — — Map (db m159179) HM
Time: Late Morning
After critical delays getting his troops on the field, Union commander Gen. Philip H. Sheridan was finally able to launch his first attack at 11:40 am. Gen. James B. Ricketts's division of the 6th Corps led the attack . . . — — Map (db m159422) HM
"Let us never forget to
acknowledge the courage, conviction,
commitment and sacrifice of those
who have given us this
great republic" — — Map (db m204194) HM
The First Battle of Kernstown, on March 23, 1862, was also the first major Civil War battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley. Throughout the morning, 16 Union cannons on Pritchard’s Hill held off Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s overmatched . . . — — Map (db m183304) HM
The First Battle of Kernstown, on March 23, 1862, was also the first major Civil War battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley. Throughout the morning, 16 Union cannons on Pritchard’s Hill held off Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s overmatched . . . — — Map (db m185032) HM
Time: Early Afternoon
Along the Berryville Turnpike some 1,000 feet to your right, Union commander Gen. Phillip Sheridan had placed Gen. David Russell's division in reserve, explaining to Russell - who had been one of Sheridan's instructors . . . — — Map (db m226436) HM
In addition to the action of July 20, 1864, known as the Battle of Rutherford’s Farm, two other significant events occurred on or near John Rutherford’s property here. The first took place on June 14-15, 1863, during the Gettysburg Campaign, as . . . — — Map (db m154051) HM
From this position near the Hoge Run creek bed, you have a view similar to that of the Confederate sharpshooters as they saw the Union defensive line along the stone wall by Pritchard's Lane. (Note that the creek bed has been significantly . . . — — Map (db m159170) HM
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After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into . . . — — Map (db m100973) HM
While Union artillery from Star Fort dueled with Confederate gunners in West Fort on June 14, 1863, Winchester's civilians fretted for their safety. Some wondered if Union Gen. Robert H. Milroy would destroy Winchester by either burning or . . . — — Map (db m100978) HM
Here Jubal A. Early, detached to attack the rear of Milroy, holding Winchester, crossed this road and moved eastward in the afternoon of June 15, 1863. — — Map (db m2666) HM
In June 1863, at the midpoint of the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the north, sending his Second Corps under Gen. Richard Ewell to clear the way in the Shenandoah Valley. Ewell crossed into the Valley on . . . — — Map (db m199501) HM
Learning that Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early had taken half of his army north to Martinsburg, West Virginia, Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan planned to move quickly on September 19, 1864, to destroy the remaining Confederate force in Winchester and . . . — — Map (db m204211) HM
Time: Mid-Afternoon
Union Gen. William Emory's 19th Corps suffered heavy losses in the early combat on September 19, 1864, but Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan was not done fighting.
When Sheridan arrived on the scene, Emory explained . . . — — Map (db m159419) HM
Time: Late Morning
As Confederate Maj. James Breathed's cannon, positioned on the high ground some 200 yards your right, opened fire with "telling effect" on the Federal advancing in the Middle Field on the opposite side of Red Bud Rum, . . . — — Map (db m204222) HM
Three times during the Civil War, Star Fort played a major role in the defense of Winchester. Union Gen. Robert H. Milroy’s troops began constructing the fort in January 1863 on the site of artillery emplacements Confederate Gen. Thomas J. . . . — — Map (db m117368) HM
Time: Mid-Afternoon
At 3 pm, Union Gen. George Crook launched a two-pronged attack on the Confederate left flank in an attempt to break the stalemate on the battlefield. One of his divisions, under Col. Isaac Duval, moved to attack here, but . . . — — Map (db m204197) HM
Time: Mid-Afternoon
Confederate Gen. John B. Gordon's 2,600-man division occupied the northern stretch of Gen. Jubal A. Early's battle line. Gordon's command primarily manned the Second Woods a short distance behind you, but moved into . . . — — Map (db m159416) HM
Northern Colonel Nathan Kimball saw the position of his troops on nearby Pritchard's Hill (1.5 miles left and in front of you) becoming indefensible. Southern artillery recently placed on the higher elevation of Sandy Ridge (just in front of you) . . . — — Map (db m3501) HM
During its brief existence, the APCWS acquired a large portion of two major battlefields in the Shennandoah Valley, Fisher's Hill in 1991 and Third Winchester in 1995. This fledgling entity, devoted to protecting Civil War ground, was founded in . . . — — Map (db m234738) HM
When Confederate forces approached Winchester late on the morning of June 13, 1863, Confederate Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson's division was marching along the Front Royal Pike (modern-day US-522), just to your right. In front of him were Union . . . — — Map (db m199497) HM
"Indications are that [the] enemy must attack me in the morning....The probabilities are that I shall attack him."
—Union Gen. William W. Averell
After hearing from scouts that the Confederate army was moving towards . . . — — Map (db m155113) HM
The shocking impact of the great charge and capture of Fort Collier unhinged Early’s entire line of battle. Confederate troops streamed south through the streets of Winchester, Confederate artillery continued firing from Star Fort, slowing the . . . — — Map (db m2509) HM
While the photography on this panel shows soldiers who were killed during the Battle of Antietam, similar scenes covered the landscape around you after the Third Battle of Winchester.
The human toll was staggering. Third Winchester was the . . . — — Map (db m204201) HM
The stone wall here was originally between waist and shoulder-high. It was a farm fence, made of stones picked up from the farm fields full of lime stone outcroppings common to the Shenandoah Valley. The wall ran east-west to the top of a long . . . — — Map (db m185113) HM
Southern General Thomas Jackson was already going by the nickname "Stonewall" when he directed his troops to this location to support the Southern artillery on Sandy Ridge. Ironically, his troops' retreat from this stone wall led to Jackson's only . . . — — Map (db m185120) HM
The First Battle of Kernstown, fought by 10,000 Americans on March 23, 1862, was the first battle waged in the Shenandoah Valley. Throughout the morning, sixteen Union cannon crowned the knolls of Pritchard’s Hill (the high ground immediately north . . . — — Map (db m2169) HM
"Believing that [the enemy] had other forces near at hand, I did not propose to walk into the net."
—Union Col. Nathan Kimball
Explaining why he declined to attack the smaller Confederate force during the early stages of . . . — — Map (db m155106) HM
The low, marshy ground stretching from here to the distant road lay uncontested throughout the five-hour artillery duel that opened the First Battle of Kernstown. The scene changed dramatically at 2:00 p.m. when 900 Virginians marched toward this . . . — — Map (db m159183) HM
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In the excitement of battle I could aim at them only forty or fifty yards from me, as coolly as I ever did at a squirrel. But now it seems very much like murder. They would throw up their hands and fall every time we would get a fair . . . — — Map (db m185031) HM
"Our entrance into Winchester was one of the most stirring scenes of my life."
—Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
Remembering the ... reaction when he entered Winchester after the battle
At the . . . — — Map (db m155108) HM
The Great Indian Road, called Philadelphia Wagon Road by many settlers, was developed by Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) warriors traveling in the 1700s through the Great Valley of the Appalachians (which they called Jonontore) from Cohongaronto (north of . . . — — Map (db m12089) HM
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75 Yards in front of you stands the remnants of the Huntsberry Farm. At the time of the battle, the farm covered 400 acres north and south of Red Bud Run.
After emigrating from Germany in the early 1700's, the Huntsberry . . . — — Map (db m204224) HM
Time: Late Morning
You're standing where the First Woods ended and the Middle Field began during the Third Battle of Winchester. The Middle Field then was much larger than it appears today. At the time of the battle, it stretched for . . . — — Map (db m159417) HM
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Shenandoah At War
In 1996, Congress designated eight counties as the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District, with a mission to preserve and interpret the region's Civil War battlefields and related . . . — — Map (db m204195) HM
Northern commander Colonel Nathan Kimball 1.5 miles away (over the hill on your right) on Prichard's Hill faced the threat of defeat. He decided to seize the initiative and order a second assault against the Southern artillery atop Sandy Ridge. At . . . — — Map (db m3504) HM
The large brick dwelling before you is the Pritchard House, built in 1854 by Stephen Pritchard, Jr. and his son, Samuel Pritchard. During the Civil War Samuel, his wife Helen, and their two small children occupied the house. Fighting swirled . . . — — Map (db m159182) HM
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