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Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park became the 388th unit of the United States National Park Service when it was authorized on December 19, 2002. The National Historical Park was created to protect several historically significant locations in the Shenandoah Valley of Northern Virginia, notably the site of the American Civil War Battle of Cedar Creek and the Belle Grove ...
Virginia Museum of the Civil War. New Market Battlefield State Historical Park is a historic American Civil War battlefield and national historic district located near New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses the site of the Battle of New Market, a battle fought on May 15, 1864, during Valley Campaigns of 1864. In the ...
The Shenanandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District is a National Heritage Area in VirginiaThe district comprises eight counties in the Shenandoah Valley, including the scene of Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862, Lee's Gettysburg Campaign of 1863 and Sheridan's Shenandoah Campaign of 1864.
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Military Campaigns of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8078-3005-5. Janda, Lance. "Shutting the gates of mercy: The American origins of total war, 1860-1880." Journal of Military History 59#1 (1995): 7-26. online; Lewis, Thomas A., and the Editors of Time ...
Pages in category "Shenandoah County, Virginia, in the American Civil War" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The fighting took place in the Shenandoah Valley of Northern Virginia, near Cedar Creek, Middletown, and the Valley Pike. During the morning, Lieutenant General Jubal Early appeared to have a victory for his Confederate army, as he captured over 1,000 prisoners and over 20 artillery pieces while forcing seven enemy infantry divisions to fall back.
New construction is taking place at VanStory History Village, which is part of The NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction, on Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved 1,226 acres (4.96 km 2) of the battlefield. Since 2013, Shenandoah University has helped protect the preserved land. One hundred ninety-five acres of the battlefield are known as the Shenandoah River Campus at Cool Spring Battlefield ...