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Description of Subject Matter: Winchester, located along the Shenandoah Valley, was the site of several major Civil War battles, Winchester changed hands over 70 times over the course of the war. Today, graffiti from captured and hospitalized soldiers is still visible in the 19th century courthouse in the town’s main square. Stone walls and cemeteries that provided cover for those soldiers are still standing. And the vistas of the Allegheny Mountains and the Blue Ridge that awed the troops 140 years ago still offer their breathtaking views.

While Winchester is proud of its many preserved historic buildings and homes, much of the Civil War preservation effort in the area is still underway. But visitors today can hike upon many of the same hills and fields over which these soldiers fought. You can stand in the rooms where Stonewall Jackson began to plan his famous Valley Campaign. Strolling the quaint streets will take you past the churches where Generals Jubal Early, George A. Custer and Philip Sheridan worshiped.
The above was from http://www.shenandoahatwar.org/cluster_winchester.html

Various parts within Winchester that aren't highlighted elsewhere:
Shenandoah Memorial Park: The grave of Patsy Cline.
Patsy Cline, country singer, was born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Winchester, Virginia. She received her first contract as a country singer in 1953. She was married to Gerald Cline, a construction industry mogul, 1953-57. She married Charles Allen Dick, a linotype operator for the Winchester Star, in 1957. They had a daughter, Julia Dick (b. 1958), and a son, Allen Randolph Dick (b. 1961).
Rocketing to fame based on an appearance on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in 1957, she joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1960. She had a head-on car collision in 1961 which left her forehead visibly scarred.
Cline died in a plane crash at Camden, Tennessee while returning from Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 30, on March 5, 1963. She is interred in the Shenandoah Memorial Park cemet ...More...
Wikipedia Description: Winchester, Virginia
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Winchester is an independent city located in the state of Virginia. The population was 23,585 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Frederick County and the principal city of the Winchester, Virginia-West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a part of the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV Combined Statistical Area. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Winchester with surrounding Frederick county for statistical purposes. Winchester is the home of Shenandoah University.

History:

Native American history:

Around 1000 A.D. early native population included Cacapon, Opequon, Shawnee and Tuscarora tribes. By the Middle Ages, the natural north-south conduit of the Great Appalachian Valley made Winchester a likely place for tribal warfare as bands of Catawba, Cherokee, Delaware, Iroquois, and Shawnee marauded the valley plains for hunting grounds. The first tribe with real control of the valley were the Susquehannocks, who were then raided and expelled by Iroquois around 1600. Supposedly the Iroquois allowed the Shawnee tribe to either village or establish transient campsites here at Shawnee Springs from about 1694 to the mid-1700s, overlapping with the arrival of early Quaker settlers and homesteaders. The father of the historical Shawnee chief Cornstalk had his court here.

European exploration:

French Jesuit expeditions first entered the valley as early as 1606 resulting in a crude map drawn in 1632 by Samuel Champlain, but the first confirmed exploration of the northern valley was by explorer John Lederer who viewed the valley from the current Fauquier and Warren County line on 26 August 1670. This was followed by more extensive exploration and mapping by Swiss explorer Louise Michel in 1705 and then Governor Alexander Spotswood in 1716.

In the late 1720s Governor William Gooch promoted settlement by issuing large land grants and, subsequen ...More...
Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WINCH_130127_040.JPG: Second Battle of Winchester Louisiana Tigers Capture West Fort — Gettysburg Campaign — In June 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee marched his infantry from Culpeper County to the Shenandoah Valley to launch his second invasion of the North. First, however, he had to capture Winchester, the largest town on his line of communication, which Union Gen. Robert H. Milroy and a 9,000 man garrison occupied. Milroy soon faced Gen. Robert S. Ewell and 17,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia’s Second Corps. After heavy skirmishing on June 12-13, Milroy ordered his command into three fortifications: Fort Milroy, Star Fort, and West Fort. West Fort, smallest of the three, is on the high ground to your distant front. On the morning of June 14, the 110th Ohio Infantry, one company of the 116th Ohio, and six guns of the 5th U.S. Artillery occupied West Fort. Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early, seeing that West Fort was vulnerable to attack from the west, marched three infantry brigades and Lt. Col. Hilary P. Jones’ 20-gun artillery battalion to the ridge on your right. He later reported that "the enemy were not keeping a lookout in my direction." Jones divided his battalion to take West Fort in crossfire. Early chose Harry Hays’ Louisiana Brigade “Louisiana Tigers” for the infantry assault. When all was ready, Jones opened fire. Four Union guns were knocked out, and Hays' men charged. The Ohioans fought stubbornly, but soon abandoned their guns and fled toward Fort Milroy and Star Fort. Milroy ordered a retreat that evening, which was blocked at Stephenson Depot. The Confederates’ route to Pennsylvania was now open.
2. WINCH_130127_057.JPG: Star Fort Guardian of Winchester Three times during the Civil War, Star Fort played a major role in the defense of Winchester. Union Gen. Robert H. Milroy’s troops began constructing the fort in January 1863 on the site of artillery emplacements Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s men had built in 1861. Milroy, a fervent abolitionist, used stone from the nearby home of U.S. Senator James Mason, author of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Star Fort commanded the Martinsville Turnpike and the Pughtown Road. In June 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia here in his second invasion of the North. On June 14, in the Second Battle of Winchester, Confederate Gen. Richard S. Ewell’s corps spearheaded Lee’s advance, forcing Milroy into the Winchester forts. Gen. Jubal A. Early’s division captured West Fort and shelled Star Fort, which fired in return. “The guns in the Star Fort greeted them,” wrote one of Milroy’s soldiers, “with shell after shell planted among them with astonishing precision.” Milroy withdrew that night. Most of his men surrendered at Stephenson’s Depot the next day, then were held temporarily at Star Fort. A year later, on July 24, 1864, Union Gen. George Cook fought a delaying action here while retreating north after the Second Battle of Kernstown. Star Fort figured prominently in the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19, 1864, when detachments of Early’s cavalry and horse artillery held it to guard his army’s left flank. Union Col. James M. Schoonmaker’s cavalry brigade twice charged the fort, then dismounted and stormed it. Schoonmaker received the Medal of Honor for his actions.
3. WINCH_130127_063.JPG: Star Fort sign. This place was open when I was here years ago.
4. WINCH_130127_105.JPG: Patsy Cline: Country Music Singer: Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley), world-famous singer, lived in this house. She was born in Winchester Memorial Hospital on 8 Sept. 1932. On 21 Jan. 1957 she won Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts national television show’s competition singing “Walkin’ After Midnight.” In 1961 “I fall to Pieces” became a hit. Her iconic “Crazy” was released a year later. Her haunting voice took her to the top of the charts, and her style and popularity have never waned. She died in an airplane crash on 5 Mar. 1963 in Camden, Tennessee. In 1973, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Cline is interred at nearby Shenandoah Memorial Park.
5. WINCH_130127_116.JPG: Patsy Cline house
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