Union Camps (Cedar Creek Battlefield) - Middletown VA - U.S. Civil War Sites on Waymarking.com

Union Camps (Cedar Creek Battlefield)-Federal wagons and teams were in camp, close to and along the pike, while the shelter tents of the soldiers were arranged close to the earthworks themselves. By 8 A.M. on 19 October 1864, the area was filled with withdrawing units and individuals, while others remained in line to make last-ditch stands. Federal points of resistance formed around Belle Grove and on the high ground to the west where XIX U.S. Corps formed briefly around Captain Elijah D. Taft's 5th Battery, New York Light Artillery, before retreating again to the northwest across Meadow Brook. These troops then joined the VI U.S. Corps in a final line. An eyewitness reported, "Over the space of a mile square the fields, long since stripped of their fence rails, were dotted with wagons, ambulances, pack mules, army followers and stray soldiers, none of them hurrying, but all aiming at the direct safest route to Winchester."

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Belle Grove, Middletown, Virginia, as seen from Signal Knob, Gordon's view before the battle.

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LOCATION: Marker is near Middletown, Virginia, in Frederick County. Marker is on Valley Pike (U.S. 11) north of Belle Grove Road (Virginia Route 727), on the right when traveling north. Marker is located in front of the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation Visitor Center. 8437 Valley Pike, Middletown VA 22645

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Date Logged Log User Rating   10/04/2021 Don.Morfe visited it