BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Hanging Rock -- Battlefield

VA -- Hanging Rock -- Battlefield:

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1. HANGIN_081229_013.JPG: In honor of George Morgan Jones Citizen -- Soldier Philanthropist
2. HANGIN_081229_016.JPG: The Battle of Hanging Rock a Union Retreat Disrupted On June 21, 1864, following two days of fighting at Lynchburg, Confederate General Robert Ransom's cavalry, pursuing Union General David Hunter's retreating column, engaged in a conflict that would ultimately become known as the Battle of Hanging Rock. Hunter, fearing an assault by forces of Confederate general Jubal A. Early after the Union defeat at Lynchburg, withdrew toward New Castle. His troops followed the Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike. Early sent his army in pursuit. He ordered Ransom to lead his cavalry over in the Peaks of Otter to Buchanan, then to Salem on the Great Road (modern Route 11). Hunter's retreating forces included a wagon train of ambulances and supply wagons as well as artillery and munitions. The narrow gap between steep bluffs at Hanging Rock delayed the column, creating a prime opportunity for Confederate attack. On the morning of June 21, Confederate General John McCausland's cavalry spotted the stalled Union artillery. Early his infantry had not caught up with Hunter's Army, so Ransom set McCausland with only a portion of his cavalry to strike the Union column. The Union guns and wagons sustained heavy damage; wheels were torn away, cannon trunnions broken, and limbers pushed into Mason Creek. McCausland's troops burned ammunition wagons, killed and captured horses, confiscated guns, and took prisoners. Finally, Union cavalry and infantry reinforcements arrived. McCausland was forced to abandon the gap, allowing Hunter to continue his retreat.
3. HANGIN_081229_028.JPG: United Daughters of the Confederacy monuments: When Miss Massie Garst died in 1960, she bequested the Hanging Rock and Buzzard's Roost to the Virginia Division United Daughters of the Confederacy. She willed that the site be preserved as a memorial to the brave soldiers who fought and died in the Battle of Hanging Rock on June 21, 1864. Miss Garst's home was situated near the gap where Confederate Brigadier General John McCausland fired on the artillery and supply wagons of Major General David Hunter's US Army. On June 3, 1932, the Southern Cross Chapter Number 746 UDC erected a monument on Route 311, memorializing the battle and the Confederate soldiers who died here. On June 21, 1964, the William Watts Chapter Number 809 dedicated a monument at the intersection of I-81 and Route 419 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Hanging Rock.
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2008 photos: Trips this year: (1) Civil War Preservation Trust annual conference in Springfield, Missouri , (2) a week in New York, (3) a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con, (4) a driving trip to St. Louis, and (5) a visit to dad and Dixie's in Asheville, North Carolina. Ego strokes: A picture I'd taken last year during a Friends of the Homeless event was published in USA Today with a photo credit and everything! I became a volunteer photographer with the AFI/Silver theater. Equipment this year: I was using three cameras -- the Fuji S9000 and the Canon Rebel Xti from last year, and a new camera, the Fuji S100fs. The first two cameras had their pluses and minuses and I really didn't have a single camera that I thought I could use for just about everything. But I loved the S100fs and used it almost exclusively this year. Number of photos taken this year: 330,000.
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