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HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - There is new signage marking the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War history at Melrose Caverns in Harrisonburg. The project was part of several recent installations in the ...
The museums and connecting carriage houses offer collections of significant artifacts that show what early life in the Shenandoah Valley was like. Civil War buffs will also be right at home in ...
and the Shenandoah Valley tilt the election to Lincoln and the Confederacy's last hope for independence dies. In an ironic twist, poignantly typical of the Civil War, Lee's Arlington mansion is ...
Noyala, Director of Shenandoah University's McCormick Civil War Institute, tells the story of this battle ... rather than a loss that allowed Early’s army to remain in the Valley, and ultimately ...
Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...
Shenandoah County will showcase its history on Saturday during Shenandoah County Heritage Day 2025, co-hosted annually by the Shenandoah County Historical Society and the Shenandoah County Library ...
David Powell’s Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah Valley: Major General Franz Sigel and the War ... even for the casual student of the Civil War, to follow the strategic and tactical movements ...
It was used shamelessly to promote the Northern war effort. Whatever its literary ... at Cedar Creek to stem certain defeat in the Shenandoah Valley. Sheridan's army had been surprised at dawn ...