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The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved 947 acres (3.83 km 2) of the Port Republic battlefield in seven transactions since 1988. [10] The battlefield is located about three miles east of Port Republic at U.S. Route 340 and Ore Bank Road. It retains its wartime agrarian ...
Most of the buildings remaining now postdate the town's river port days, but many of these are late 19th-or early 20th-century replacements for buildings destroyed in the disastrous floods of the 1870s and 1880s. The village was at the center of the Battle of Port Republic which took place in June 1862. [3]
Red Hill Road Secretary Road SR 620 (Rolling Road) Gap between SR 20 and SR 627: Alleghany [3] 0.37 0.60 Dead End McAllister Drive SR 625 (East Dolly Ann Drive) Amherst [4] 0.50 0.80 SR 739 (Honey Bee Drive) Boxwood Farm Road SR 610 (Boxwood Farm Road) Augusta [5] 4.10 6.60 SR 876 (Cattleman Road) Glebe School Road Eidson Creek Road Miss ...
The hamlet of Port Republic, Virginia, lies on a neck of land between the North and South Rivers, which conjoin to form the South Fork Shenandoah River.On June 6–7, 1862, Jackson's army, numbering about 16,000, bivouacked north of Port Republic, Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's division along the banks of Mill Creek near Goods Mill, and Brig. Gen. Charles S. Winder's division on the north bank ...
The Battle of Port Republic in June 1862 during Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign in the American Civil War centered on Port Republic. After the Civil War, Port Republic remained a locus of commerce and industry, with two iron foundries in operation by 1866. [3] Artifacts and documents of the town's founding and history are ...
The Port Republic Road Historic District is a national historic district in Waynesboro, Virginia.In 2002, it included 83 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area, plus one other contributing structure and one contributing site, a foundation.
The Battle of Port Republic had been poorly managed by Jackson and was the most damaging to the Confederates in terms of casualties—816 against a force one half his size (about 6,000 to 3,500). Union casualties were 1,002, with a high percentage representing prisoners. [ 70 ]
June 9, 1862 - Battle of Port Republic, Va. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. United States War Department. Volume XII, Chapter XXIV, pp. 717–791. (1885)