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Civil War Action in Edinburg

Piccadilly St, VA , USA

Latitude & Longitude: 38° 49' 17.1768", -78° 33' 58.5684"
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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.

Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00
 
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