Glen Allen, Henrico Courty, Virginia
On May 11, in the mists of the predawn, the combatants were assembling for the battle of Yellow Tavern, just six miles from the gates of Richmond. Stuart's cavalry raced south from Beaverdam to get ahead . . . — — Map (db m295650) HM
Hanover County, Virginia
In the darkness of predawn on May 9, forty miles from Richmond, a section of Sheridan's cavalry under Custer's command raided the railroad station at Beaver Dam, in Hanover County. The station was being used as a . . . — — Map (db m295648) HM
Civil War armies consisted of three major components: infantry, artillery, and cavalry. The Cavalry's primary role was to support the infantry and artillery, gathering intelligence, scouting, screening the movements of the army, and serving as . . . — — Map (db m295645) HM
Fifth Virginia Cavalry
In an attempt to slow the Union assault, Lomax moved the rest of his brigade including Col. Pate and his Fifth Virginia Cavalry into position in a shallow cut of Telegraph Road. Stuart observed the action taking place . . . — — Map (db m295651) HM
The Battle of Yellow Tavern bought Richmond time. Enough Confederate reinforcements manned the interior line of defenses around Richmond to persuade Sheridan to cancel his goal of raiding the Confederate capital.
The ambulance carrying . . . — — Map (db m295656) HM
In March of 1949, Charlie Melton Dellenback Sr. became owner of the 169 acre tract that was a small part of the original Laurel Hill farm. This land included the farmhouse built in 1895 by William A. Mitchell and his son John. The farm contained . . . — — Map (db m241969) HM
Local and oral tradition says that the large boxwoods before you were planted by Elizabeth Pannill Stuart, mother of J.E.B. Stuart. The Stuart's moved to this land about 1825 and lived here for a few years before building their home Laurel Hill, . . . — — Map (db m162904) HM
This pattern is taken from "The Big Book of Civil War Quilts".
Bold interplay of darks and lights brings to mind images
of Civil War battles fought in fields divided by rail fences.
Carol Hopkins dedicated this quilt to all soldiers who . . . — — Map (db m162892) HM
One of the enduring mysteries in the preservation of Laurel Hill has been finding the location of William Letcher's home. Recent discoveries have shed some light on that question. In June of 2009, a number of students from Radford University, led by . . . — — Map (db m162907) HM
"His dear lady did not suffer me to quit the house until I had promised to watch over her husband in the hour of battle." The words of Maj. Heros von Borcke, one of Stuart's most famous staff officers, describe Flora's admonition to him as he and . . . — — Map (db m99882) HM
The Grave of William Letcher is the oldest in Patrick County with an inscription that reads:
"In memory of William Letcher, who was assassinated in his own house in the bosom of his family by a Tory of the Revolution, on the 2nd day of August, . . . — — Map (db m162901) HM
The Historical Roadbed that you see before you dates from the earliest colonial times of what is now Patrick County. This road may have been in use as early as the 1750 period. Approximately one thousand feet of this historic road forms the eastern . . . — — Map (db m99841) HM
The home of Archibald and Elizabeth Pannill Stuart was constructed on this site c. 1830. It was in this house that their most famous son. James Ewell Brown was born on February 6, 1833. Six other Stuart children would also be born in this house. Of . . . — — Map (db m99843) HM
"This son of Virginia"
Born on February 6, 1833, James Ewell Brown, "Jeb" Stuart was the eighth child of Archibald and Elizabeth Stuart. Stuart's birthplace, "Laurel Hil," was located on the fringe of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Patrick . . . — — Map (db m295644) HM
Young James
1845
Allen F. Weldhaas
2000
LAUREL HILL
"Although everyone deems his own
home, a spot supremely blest,
a dearer sweeter spot than all the rest."
"Yet experience has taught me it is
necessary to be deprived of it awhile
in order . . . — — Map (db m169381) HM
Entered on the National
Register of Historic Places
on September 24, 1998
Entered on the Virginia
Landmarks Register on
January 23, 1998 — — Map (db m162893) HM
Laurel Hill, the 1,500-acre farm of Archibald and Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart, was the birthplace of their seventh child, James Ewell Brown Stuart, at 11 a.m. on February 6, 1833. The house burned to the ground during the winter of 1847-48. . . . — — Map (db m54713) HM
This white oak tree is the offspring of the mighty white oak which stood in Hanover County, Virginia, for
more than 400 years before being destroyed by Hurricane Isabel in 2003
History relates it provided shade for Robert E. Lee and his staff . . . — — Map (db m99846) HM
In the years following his death, Stuart came to be a leading symbol of the Southern culture of the Lost Cause and of Virginia's Cavalier idolization. The poet Stephen Vincent Benet depicted Stuart in his epic poem John Brown's Body (1928) . . . — — Map (db m295660) HM
Looking through the trees across the Ararat River you will see the grave site of William Letcher, an American patriot. William Letcher was born about 1750, and died in 1780 at the hands of a Tory by the name of "Nichols", who was later apprehended . . . — — Map (db m162897) HM
After the murder of William Letcher in 1780, the history of the fifteen-hundred-acre farm that would become the birthplace and boyhood home of James Ewell Brown Stuart is complex, in some instances vague and uncertain. Shortly after her husband's . . . — — Map (db m267763) HM
More than 100,000 well fed and well armed Union soldiers advanced into Virginia during the months of May and June for the Overland Campaign. Grant's objective was to draw out and destroy the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The total . . . — — Map (db m295646) HM
The Mount Airy & Eastern Railway, also known as the Virginia and North Carolina Railroad, nicknamed the "Dinky," was a narrow gauge (36" inside track to track) short-line railroad that ran from Mount Airy, North Carolina, to Kibler Valley, . . . — — Map (db m294742) HM
In the 19th century, Mountain Road consisted of mostly large and small farms. In 1857, the Hopkins family purchased Walkerton on approximately 250 acres. Two other substantial homesteads on Mountain Road at this time belonged to the Sheppards and . . . — — Map (db m295649) HM
The investigation of the Laurel Hill property by the College Of William and Mary's Center for Archaeological Research in 1993, revealed the presence of Native American activity on the crest during the Archaic and Woodland periods (c. 12000 BC to 900 . . . — — Map (db m99845) HM
North Carolina. North Carolina was one of the original thirteen states. The first settlement was made on Roanoke Island, 1585, but was not permanent. Settlers from Virginia occupied the Albemarle region before 1663, in which year the colony . . . — — Map (db m54712) HM
This graveyard marks the final resting place of many African-American slaves
who toiled at Laurel Hill during its existence. Although, slaves may have been present on the property prior to 1824, the first official indication of their presence . . . — — Map (db m162895) HM
This small graveyard has presented a historical mystery. In 1855, Archibald Stuart, the father of General Stuart passed away and was buried in the graveyard before you. In July 1859, his wife, Elizabeth Pannill Stuart sold the property and in so . . . — — Map (db m99844) HM
On this site, stood the outbuilding that served as the kitchen for the Stuart family. As was the custom in those days kitchens were housed in buildings separate from the main dwelling for protection against a fire that might erupt as a result of . . . — — Map (db m99842) HM
Maj. General Stuart's concept of command focused on one word - attack. If the enemy was before him, on his flank, or behind him, he had one response - attack. A saber in its scabbard was useless. It must be drawn and used to strike a blow, and . . . — — Map (db m99880) HM
"Jeb never says, 'Go boys,' but always 'Come, boys.'" In writing these words George Cary Eggleston of the 1st Virginia Cavalry summed up his commander's philosophy of leadership. Stuart never sent his men where he could not go and never asked them . . . — — Map (db m99881) HM
"Raiding with General Stuart is poor fun and a hard business. Thunder, lighting, rain, storm, mud, nor darkness can stop him when he is on a warm fresh trail of Yankee game." Horse artilleryman George M. Neese's opinion of Stuart following the . . . — — Map (db m99878) HM
He never brought me a "fat" piece information." Robert E. Lee's words, uttered upon his hearing of Stuart's death, were a fitting epitaph for "the eyes of the army." General Joseph E. Johnston, on his transfer to the war's western theater, wrote to . . . — — Map (db m99879) HM
The hand dug water-well before you is believed to date to the Stuart occupancy which began about 1825 and ended in 1859. The well which still contains water, is rock lined and about twenty feet deep. This well was described in a 1935 Richmond Times . . . — — Map (db m162908) HM
To the west stood Laurel Hill (built about 1830), where Confederate Maj. Gen. James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart was born on 6 Feb. 1833 to Archibald Stuart, a lawyer and politician, and Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart. The house burned in the winter . . . — — Map (db m54710) HM
A short distance west is the site of the home of Archibald Stuart, Jr., a statesman of a century ago. There was born, February 6, 1833, his son, James Ewell Brown Stuart, who became Major-General commanding the cavalry of the Army of Northern . . . — — Map (db m294743) HM
This is the original roadside Virginia Historical marker that stood near the entrance to Laurel Hill for nearly seventy years. During that time this sign was the only indication of the historical significance of this site to passing motorists. . . . — — Map (db m299137) HM
After the Stuart family sold the Laurel Hill farm in 1859 to Robert R. Galloway and Dr. Joseph Hollingsworth, except for the possibility for a few tenant farmers, the land sat mostly idle for the next twenty years. In 1879, Samuel Hill Taylor, . . . — — Map (db m162902) HM
William Letcher, the maternal great-grandfather of James Ewell Brown Stuart, was born about 1750 near Petersburg, Virginia. He was the second son of Giles Letcher of Goochland County, who was born in Ireland, and his wife, Hannah Hughes, who was of . . . — — Map (db m162905) HM
Enclosed by this fence, is the grave of William Letcher an American patriot. This is the oldest known marked grave within Patrick County. William Letcher was born about 1750, and married Elizabeth Perkins about 1778. The couple most likely . . . — — Map (db m162899) HM
Stuart observed the action with his attention firmly fixed on the disiant woods where Custer was deploying his men. He then ordered up Gen Fitzhugh Lee and the First Virginia Cavalry to meet the Union advance.
Thunder from the storm roared . . . — — Map (db m295653) HM
