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Cool Spring Battlefield is a historic American Civil War battlefield and national historic district located near Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia.It encompasses 17 contributing buildings, 26 contributing sites, and 11 contributing structures.
The Cool Spring Battlefield was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [3] The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its federal, state and local partners have helped save 1,226 acres (4.96 km 2) of the battlefield, preserved by easement agreements with Holy Cross Abbey and Shenandoah University. [4]
Cool Spring Battlefield: Cool Spring Battlefield. June 6, 1997 : Junction of State Route 7 and the Shenandoah River Berryville: 14: Fairfield: Fairfield: February 26 ...
The following day the pitched Battle of Cool Spring, or Snickers Ferry, was fought on its western slope as Union infantry tried unsuccessfully to force a crossing of the Shenandoah River. On the 19th, Mosby's Rangers engaged a detachment of Federal cavalry that was dispatched south to Ashby's Gap to conduct a flanking movement on Early's lines.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
American Civil War battlefield preservation; Battle of Athens State Historic Site; ... Cool Spring Battlefield; F. First Battle of Newtonia Historic District;
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The Valley campaigns of 1864 began as operations initiated by Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and resulting battles that took place in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia during the American Civil War from May to October 1864.