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Old CWT Marker also titled "The Independent Loudoun Rangers" and New CWT Marker titled "Union Loyalists On The Border".
By Craig Swain, January 3, 2010
The Independent Loudoun Rangers Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| 1 ► Virginia, Loudoun County, Lovettsville — The Independent Loudoun Rangers — Serving the Union — Reported permanently removed |
| The Independent Loudoun Rangers consisted of two small cavalry companies recruited by Waterford miller Samuel Means from Lovettsville's and Waterford's Unionists. Mustered into Federal service starting June 20, 1862, the Rangers were the only . . . — — Map (db m26180) HM | |||
2 ► Virginia, Loudoun County, Lovettsville — Union Loyalists On The Border — "It cost something to be a Union man in rebeldom." —  |
| You're standing in no-man's-land during the Civil War. Lovettsville was a tense pro-Union bastion in a Confederate state, located just two miles south of the Potomac River, the border between North and South. Lovettsville was settled by German . . . — — Map (db m283739) HM | |||