John Jackson, Piedmont guitar master and influential traditional musician, was born near here on
25 Feb. 1924. One of fourteen children of tenant
farmers Suddy and Hattie Jackson, Jackson learned
songs on the guitar and banjo from his . . . — — Map (db m8398) HM
Woodville's location about a day's march from Culpeper Court House encouraged both Union and Confederate forces to camp here frequently. They established many camps in the fields and hills around the town, and both sides in the conflict used the . . . — — Map (db m171353) HM
If you had been standing here at dawn on November 27, 1863, you would have seen Col. John S. Mosby and his partisan rangers herding a string of mules bearing dejected-looking Union prisoners. Among the captives was Pvt. Robert Knox Sneden, 40th New . . . — — Map (db m52953) HM
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 m171355) HM
