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CEDAR_050619_011.JPG: The house in the distance was around during the Cedar Creek battle. Owned by Daniel Stickley, it was positioned along Cedar Creek by the bridge which Confederates came crashing across on the morning of October 19, 1864. As the battle turned later in the day, the Confederates retreated back here. A division under John Pegram tried to hold the hills to protect the retreating forces but Union cavalry under Generals George A. Custer and Tom Devin charged and broke the line. .
CEDAR_050619_029.JPG: The 128th New York Volunteer Regiment was dedicated on 15 October 1907. During the battle of Cedar Creek, the regiment lost near half its strength.
CEDAR_050619_051.JPG: The foundation lines in front are the foundation of Old Hall, an early home on the Belle Grove plantation. The owners of the plantation, Isaac Hite. Jr. and his wife Nelly Madison lived here from 1783 until their main home was built between 1794 and 1797.
CEDAR_050619_061.JPG: This is Belle Grove mansion, the main plantation house where the Cedar Creek battle was fought. On the morning of October 19, 1864, the VI and XIX U.S. Corps were camped here.
CEDAR_050619_066.JPG: This cat was a constant companion for me while I was walking the grounds
CEDAR_050619_119.JPG: The marker is to Maj. Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur, a Confederate General who was mortally wounded during the Cedar Creek battle. He died the next day at the Belle Grove house.
Wikipedia Description: Battle of Cedar Creek
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The Battle of Cedar Creek, or The Battle of Belle Grove, October 19, 1864, was one of the final, and most decisive, battles in the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War.
Background:
Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early had withdrawn "up the Valley" (southwest into the higher elevations of the Shenandoah Valley) under pressure from Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan and his Army of the Shenandoah. Sheridan's army was engaged in destroying the economic base of the Valley, meant to deprive Robert E. Lee's army of the supplies they required. They were encamped at Cedar Creek, in parts of Frederick, Shenandoah, and Warren Counties of Virginia.
Sheridan ordered the VI Corps, under Horatio G. Wright, to return to the Petersburg siege lines, assuming that Early had no aggressive moves left to him after more than a month of battling. However, after a reconnaissance in force by Early turned into a division-sized skirmish between the armies, Sheridan recalled Wright. He sent two divisions of cavalry off to raid the Virginia Central Railroad, but Early planted rumors that Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's corps might join him from Petersburg, and Sheridan brought all of his forces back to the camps along Cedar Creek.
The pugnacious Early had some aggression left in him and he had Lee's exhortations to take action guiding him. (In a letter of October 12, 1864, Lee told Early, "You had better move against him and endeavor to crush him. ... I do not think Sheridan's infantry or cavalry numerically as large as you suppose.") Early examined the Union position behind Cedar Creek and found an opening. Expecting an attack across the open valley floor to the west, the Union left relied on natural obstacles for cover. Early planned to get his men across the creek and attack the Union left, rolling up the line and defeating each part in detail. His choice was either to attack or retire to replenish his d ...More...
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2005 photos: Equipment this year: I used four cameras -- two Fujifilm S7000 cameras (which were plagued by dust inside the lens), a new Fujifilm S5200 (nice but not great and I hated the proprietary xD memory chips), and a Canon PowerShot S1 IS (returned because it felt flimsy to me). I gave my Epson camera to my catsitter. Both of the S7000s were in for repairs over Christmas.
Trips this year: Florida (for Lotusphere), a driving trip down south (seeing sites in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia), Williamsburg, and Chicago.
Number of photos taken this year: 147,000.
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