Civil War Action in Edinburg
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vhasler
N 38° 49.286 W 078° 33.976
17S E 711283 N 4299775
Description of several local events during US Civil War
Waymark Code: WMDR57
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 02/17/2012
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Inscription:
During Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's 1862 Valley campaign, Confederate Col. Turner Ashby's cavalry and Chew's Battery halted Union Maj Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's steady advance southward. Ashby engaged Union forces 28 times in April along Stony Creek and the Valley Pike. Confederate guns located on Cemetery Hill to the southwest, dueled with Union batteries on Academy Hill directly across the center of Edinburg. In early October 1864, during their burning of the Shenandoah Valley, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's troopers set the Edinburg Mill afire but extinguished it after two local girls protested.
Marker Number: AB-2
Marker Title: Civil War Action in Edinburg
Marker Location: junction of Stony Creek Boulevard and Piccadilly Street
County or Independent City: Shenandoah County
Marker Program Sponsor: Dept. of Historic Resources, 1995
Web Site: Not listed
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