Essentials: More than twenty monuments dedicated to Confederate soldiers were built in Southwest Virginia from the 1880s-1920s Many monuments stand at county courthouses or in cemeteries Confederate memorials tend to gloss over the more difficult aspects of the Civil War, especially the role of slavery in the conflict >> Back to table of contents Confederate […]
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Essentials: Site of historic salt works in Smyth County, Virginia Called the “Salt Capital of the Confederacy” because the town’s salt works produced up to two thirds of all salt used in the Confederate war effort Confederate forces under Generals John C. Breckinridge and Alfred D. Jackson defeated Union raiders under Gen. Stephen Burbridge […]
Essentials: Formed in 1832 when William Black deeded several acres to the trustees of the town in order to create a cemetery Includes the graves of a number of Civil War veterans Contains a Confederate monument, dedicated by the Harvey Black Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1901 >> Back to […]
Essentials: Built c. 1790s, one of the oldest homes in Christiansburg (est. 1792) Used as headquarters by US general George B. Stoneman when his cavalry raiders passed through Christiansburg in April 1865 Confederate generals Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart are rumored to have stayed here >> Back to table of contents Montague […]
Essentials: The most significant battle in Southwest Virginia, fought in Pulaski County Took place May 9, 1864, between Union forces under General George Crook and Confederate forces under General Albert Jenkins Future Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley both fought at Cloyd’s Mountain After an hour of some of the most intense fighting of the Civil War, […]
Essentials: Union general George B. Stoneman led 4,000 cavalry troops in an effort to cripple Confederate railroads and infrastructure in North Carolina and Southwest Virginia The raid in Virginia occurred April 3-9, 1865 Their main target in Virginia was the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, especially the depot at Christiansburg (Cambria) Raiders destroyed railroads and bridges […]
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Paul Quigley is Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies and the James I. Robertson, Jr. Associate Professor of Civil War History in the History Department at Virginia Tech. Originally from Manchester, England, he holds degrees from Lancaster University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Quigley is the author of […]