As he advanced south from the Potomac, Union Gen. Robert Patterson sent Gen. James Negley's brigade along a smaller road to the west to guard his right flank. Company I of the 15th Pennsylvania Infantry moved ahead of Negley's main body as . . . — — Map (db m303403) HM
The opposing infantry marched towards each other along the Williamsport Pike, a mile to your front. A skirmish line of McMullen's Rangers led the Union advance, followed by Col. John Starkweather's 1st Wisconsin Infantry. Nearing the Porterfield . . . — — Map (db m303404) HM
On the morning of July 2, 1861, Federal troops under General Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River from Maryland and marched toward Martinsburg. Confederate Colonel Thomas J. Jackson’s command marched from Camp Stephens, four miles north of . . . — — Map (db m180733) HM
On the morning of July 2, 1861, Federal troops under General Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River from Maryland and marched toward Martinsburg. Confederate Colonel Thomas J. Jackson’s command marched from Camp Stephens, four miles north of . . . — — Map (db m277066) HM
On the morning of July 2, 1861, Federal troops under General Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River from Maryland and marched toward Martinsburg. Confederate Colonel Thomas J. Jackson’s command marched from Camp Stephens, four miles north of . . . — — Map (db m58078) HM
On the morning of July 2, 1861, Federal troops under Gen. Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River from Maryland and marched south toward Martinsburg. Colonel Thomas J. Jackson sent his men north from their camp north of town to block them and . . . — — Map (db m255737) HM
Here at Stumpy’s Hollow on the morning of July 2, 1861, Confederate Lieutenant Colonel J.E.B. Stuart captured a Union infantry company almost single-handedly. The Federals—Company I, 15th Pennsylvania Volunteers—were acting as skirmishers in . . . — — Map (db m256875) HM
Here on the morning of July 2, 1861, Confederate Lt. Col. J.E.B. Stuart almost single-handedly captured most of a company of Union infantrymen. The Federals—Co. I., 15th Pennsylvania Volunteers—were acting as skirmishers in advance of a flanking . . . — — Map (db m291614) HM
Early on July 2, 1861, Union forces under Maj. Gen. Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River from MD to march on Martinsburg. Alerted to the enemy's movements by Stuart's cavalry, Col. Thomas Jackson fought a masterly delaying action that led . . . — — Map (db m206003) HM
During the Civil War, the strategically important Valley Turnpike crossed the stream just above the small waterfall here. Two battles were fought nearby. The first occurred on July 2, 1861, half a mile south on the Porterfield Farm. On the . . . — — Map (db m256847) HM
The Confederates had four cannons at the Battle of Hoke's, although only one ,vas used in the fighting.
These guns belonged to the 1st Rockbridge Artillery; which had been organized in Lexington, Virginia (in Rockbridge County) in April . . . — — Map (db m303395) HM
Before dawn on July 2, 1861, with the Great Comet of 1861 bright in the sky above, Union Gen. Robert Patterson's troops splashed across the Potomac River at Williamsport, 6 miles northeast of here, watched by a small crowd of civilians—and by . . . — — Map (db m303402) HM
As the firing grew in intensity around the Porterfield Farm, Union Col. Phaon Jarrett's 11th Pennsylvania arrived on the field. Seeing the 1st Wisconsin already engaged, Jarrett moved his troops west of the pike. His men quickly found themselves . . . — — Map (db m303406) HM
In Memory of General “Stonewall” Jackson This tablet is erected by the Berkeley County Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy to commemorate an instance of General Jackson’s remarkable bravery at all times in the face of the gravest . . . — — Map (db m41626) HM
The first pitched Civil War battle in the Shenandoah Valley, the Battle of Hoke's Run, took place here on July 2, 1861, when Confederate troops under Col. Thomas J. Jackson (the future "Stonewall") attempted to block the advance of a Union force . . . — — Map (db m303397) HM
Hoke's Run Battlefield Park is a shining example of how preserving battlefields protects more than history. That preservation work also safeguards the natural world around us, protecting the very qualities that make the Shenandoah Valley such a . . . — — Map (db m303401) HM
The Confederate line began to crumble as Union artillery fire took its toll and Federal infantry threatened the southern flanks.
A two-gun section of the 4th U.S. Artillery had come onto the field with the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry. Capt. . . . — — Map (db m303407) HM
By an act of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1744, a ferry was established extending from the mouth of the Canagochego Creek in Maryland across the Patowmack to the Evan Watkins Landing, about 250 yards southeast. This landing was also the entrance . . . — — Map (db m131795) HM
West Virginia
(Berkeley County)
"The Mountain State"—western part of the Commonwealth of Virginia until June 20, 1863. Settled by the Germans and Scotch-Irish. It became a line of defense between the English and French during . . . — — Map (db m131797) HM
