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Wikipedia Description: Action at Mount Zion Church
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The Action at Mount Zion Church was an American Civil War skirmish that took place on July 6, 1864 between Union forces under Major William H. Forbes and Confederate forces under Colonel John S. Mosby near Aldie, Virginia in Loudoun County as part of Mosby's Operations in Northern Virginia. The fight resulted in a Confederate victory.
Background:
On July 2 Col. John S. Mosby was informed of General Jubal A. Early's plans to invade Maryland by the latter's quartermaster, Hugh Swartz, who was traveling through Fauquier County. In order to aid Early's raid, Mosby planned a raid of his own into Maryland to cut telegraph wires between Washington D.C. and Harpers Ferry. Accordingly he ordered a rendezvous of the Rangers the following morning at Rectortown: 250 Rangers responded to the call. The Rangers spent the day in the saddle making it to Purcellville by days end where they made camp for the night. The next morning, July 4th, the Rangers traveled the rest of the distance to the Potomac, arriving across from Berlin (present day Brunswick) around 11 a.m., where upon scouts were dispatched along the river to find possible targets of attack. When they returned Mosby was informed of a small Union force at Point of Rocks, Maryland. Mosby determined this would be the Rangers target and they set out east down the Potomac to that village.
That same day, 100 troopers of the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry and 50 from the 13th New York under Maj. William H. Forbes were dispatched from Falls Church into Loudoun County by Col. Charles R. Lowell to hunt down Mosby and his Rangers. The force traveled east down the Little River Turnpike (present day U.S. Route 50) to Lenah and then headed north up the Carolina Road toward Leesburg, stopping at Ball's Mill on the Goose Creek for the night. The following day, the Federals traveled to Aldie and then to Leesburg before returning to Ball's Mill.
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2002 photos: This was the year I started the photo web site. It started to come together in August 2002, mostly as a way of allowing me to keep track of the pictures I was taking. It took awhile to add some basic bells and whistles (logging didn't get added until November) but it's been pretty much like it started out since then. Archaic but working, and free!
Trips this year: Two weeks out west, one week in New York, and one week down south.
Image quality isn't going to be very good for the first half of this year because these are scans of prints.
Equipment this year: I took the plunge and bought my first digital camera. It was August 2002 and I bought an Epson PhotoPC 3100Z. While a nice camera, it had some quirks and bumping it would result in it being totally out of focus until you manually shut it down -- something which blurred almost every picture I took in New York City one day.
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