Post Appomattox Tragedy
N 38° 41.564 W 078° 39.015
17S E 704358 N 4285300
This historic marker is located on U. S. Route 11 in Shenandoah County, Virginia
Waymark Code: WM120Q
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 12/20/2006
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The historic marker stands on U. S. Route 11 near where Captain George Summers and Sergeant Newton Koontz were shot following the Civil War on June 27, 1865, for taking horses belonging to Federal Troops near Woodstock.
The text of the monument reads:
POST APPOMATTOX TRAGEDY
"On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended, Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz and two other armed veterans of Co. D, 7th Virginia Cavalry, robbed six Federal cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock. The horses were returned the next to to the 192d Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Rude’s Hill. Despite assurances that all was forgiven, Lt. Col. Cyrus Hussy, temporarily commanding the 192d, later ordered the men arrested. The others escaped, but Summers and Koontz were shot without trial here on 27 June. Thirty years later, Capt. Thomas J. Adams and friends erected the nearby monument to commemorate their deaths."
Marker Number: A-69
Marker Title: Post Appomattox Tragedy
Marker Location: U. S. Route 11 at Monument Lane
County or Independent City: Shenandoah County
Marker Program Sponsor: Department of Historic Resources - 1999
Web Site: Not listed
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