Bruce Guthrie Photos: VA -- Winchester -- Mt. Hebron Cemetery (plus Natl Cemetery)

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Description of Subject Matter: Part of the Third Battle of Winchester, this cemetery contains the remains of over 3,000 Confederate soldiers killed in nearby battles. Some of the Civil War notables buried here are the Ashby brothers (General Turner Ashby and Captain Richard Ashby) and the Patton brothers (George and Tazewell Patton, grandfather and grand-uncle of WWII General George Patton). Stonewall Confederate Cemetery is part of Mount Hebron Cemetery. Preceding from http://www.civilwar.org/TravelersInformation/TravelerDetail.asp?lngTravelersInformationID=622

The public cemetery here was dedicated on 1844. Over the years, various bodies were reinterred here from outlying graveyards. The oldest grave here is that of George Helm, 1723-1769.

Across the street is the National Cemetery

The land around Winchester National Cemetery was used for burials as early as 1862, but after the Civil War additional land was appropriated by the federal government and it was established as a National Cemetery in 1866. In 1870, the land was officially purchased from the land's owner.
Numerous Civil War battlefield cemeteries had their remains reinterred in Winchester, including those from the Battle of Winchester, the Battle of Front Royal, and the Battle of Harpers Ferry. The cemetery grounds underwent significant renovations during the 1930s, adding walls, maintenance buildings, and improving the headstones.
Winchester National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The above was from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_National_Cemetery

Various people, structures, and markers here:
Stonewall Cemetery: Considered the first dedicated Confederate cemetery. Since June 6, 1866, memorial services commemorating the 1862 date of Gen. Turner Ashby's death have been held annually at Stonewall Cemetery. There are 2,576 known and 829 unknown buried here. The Ashby Brothers were reburied here on October 31, 1866 and the Stars and Stripes in neighboring the ...More...
Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WINHEB_130127_059.JPG: Erected by the State of New York In honor of her sons of the 114th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, A tribute to their devotion to duty, their unfaltering courage and glorious sacrifices. Tested on many fields, their valor was most conspicuous at Winchester Virginia Sept, 19th 1864, in holding advanced defensive lines at a loss, killed and wounded, of 188 of the 315 engaged, and at Cedar Creek Virginia Oct 19th 1864, in resisting flank attacks and joining in the final victorious charge at a like loss of 127 of the 250 engaged. Time crowns their memories with undying honor
2. WINHEB_130127_229.JPG: I wasn't used to seeing graves marked "civilian".
3. WINHEB_130127_250.JPG: Pennsylvania Mourns her known and unknown dead, peacefully sleeping here, who gave up their lives that the nation they loved so dearly should not "perish from off the earth."
4. WINHEB_130127_308.JPG: Third Battle of Winchester Near here Early, facing east, took his last position on September 19, 1864. About sundown he was attacked and driven from it, retreating south. Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley served in this engagement on the Union side.
5. WINHEB_130127_348.JPG: To the Glory of God and in Memory of Lutheran Pioneers. Erected by members and friends of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church Winchester, Va. 1938. These walls are the sacred ruins of the first Lutheran Church erected in Winchester - "Die teutsche Lutherische Gemeine in Winchester in der grafschafft Freiderich in dem staate Virginien." The land was given by Thomas Lord Fairfax, by patent dated May 15, 1753, to David Dieterich, Jacob Seibert, Christopher Lambert and George Michael Laubinger, trustees "for the use of the people called Lutherans in the County of Frederick." The corner stone was laid April 16, 1764. Walls and roof completed in 1772. Building fully completed in 1793. Destroyed by fire September 27, 1854. The congregation was admitted to the Ministerium of Pennsylvania in 1762, and the Rev. Carl Frederich Wildbahn was the first authorized minister. He was forced by the Indians, whose depredations interfered with his work and the building of a church, to retire to Conewango, Pa. Only visiting ministers thereafter, preached here. Among them Major-General the Rev. Peter Muhlenburg of Woodstock, Va. until the Rev. Christian Streit became the regular pastor on July 19, 1785. He had served as a chaplain of the 8th Va. Regt. Continental Line during the Revolution and was the only dissenting minister to hold the commission of chaplain of Virginia troops. He is buried near the east wall of these ruins. During the Revolution the church was used as a barracks for American troops. The two bells in the tower were cast in Bremen, Germany, and were the first to call people to worship in Winchester. One of the bells still serves the present congregation. The old church contained the first church organ in this community. Here in 1800 was organized the synod of Maryland and Virginia. A document written in Latin, subscribed by the Rev. Johann Caspar Kirchner, officiating minister, Ludwig Adamus, scribe, and Antony Ludi, school master, placed in the corner stone preserved the names of the founder as follows: Thomas Schmidt, Nicolaus Schrach, Christoph Heuschel, David Dietrich, Christoph Wetzel, Peter Helfenstein, Geo. Michael Laubinger, Heinrich Becker, Jacob Braun, Stephen Fraenchel, Christoph Autith, Tobia Otto, Eberhard Doring, Andreas Friedlt, Christoph Heintz, Imanual Burger, Dewald Hiegel, Jacob Trautwein, Joh. Sigmond Haenli, Johannes Levley, Johannes Lentz, Christian Schumagher, Michael Rodger, Michael Warning, Christoph Lamert, Samuel Wendel, Michael Gluck, Julius Spickert, Balthaser Po, Jacob Koffenharber, Heinrich Weller, Christian Newberger. Notable contributors to the building fund were Col. George William Fairfax, Col. William Byrd III of Westover and the Hon. William Nelson of Yorktown. "Tell ye your children of it, and let our children tell their children and their children another generation." Joel 1. 3.
6. WINHEB_130127_357.JPG: 2008 This "Old Church Wall" of the original Lutheran church was stabilized and restored through the generosity of the members of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church and the citizens of Winchester, Frederick County, and Clarke County with special acknowledgment to Boy Scout Troop 1 Mount Hebron Cemetery Board of Managers Preservation of Historic Winchester R. A. Restorations The Shockey Companies Woltz Charitable Foundation
7. WINHEB_130127_381.JPG: The people of Winchester, Virginia dedicate this memorial to the patriotism and valor of General Daniel Morgan in the cause of American independence.
8. WINHEB_130127_476.JPG: Brothers Ashby
9. WINHEB_130127_497.JPG: Col. George S. Patton
10. WINHEB_130127_523.JPG: In Honor of the Women of Winchester, The Ladies Confederate Memorial Association organized in 1865 and Turner Ashby Chapter #184, United Daughters of the Confederacy, chartered 1897. For five generations they have cherished the memory of the soldiers who lie in the Stonewall Cemetery, "Love Makes Memory Eternal." Dedicated June 6th, 1999
11. WINHEB_130127_552.JPG: Unheralded, unorganized, unarmed They came for conscience sake and died for right
12. WINHEB_130127_563.JPG: Texas memorial
13. WINHEB_130127_574.JPG: Arkansas memorial
14. WINHEB_130127_580.JPG: Tennessee memorial
15. WINHEB_130127_626.JPG: Who they were, none know; What they were, all know.
16. WINHEB_130127_722.JPG: The Third Battle of Winchester (The Battle of the Opequon) September 19, 1864 The decisive assault in the campaign set in motion by General Grant to free the Shenandoah Valley from the control of the Confederacy took place here. This high ground was part of Winchester’s defensive rampart against attack from the east. At daybreak the first gunfire was heard as General Ramseur’s North Carolinians fired on Capt. Hull’s NY Cavalry as it emerged from the Berryville Canyon (VA 7 near the I-81 overpass) 1.5 miles northeast of here. General Philip Sheridan’s 39,000 Federal troops converged throughout the day on Winchester from the east and north to compel the withdrawal of General Jubal A. Early’s 15,000 Southerners. The relentless advance of Federal troops was contested by men in mortal combat in every segment of the Confederate’s shrinking front. Overpowered, the Confederates finally withdrew southward at sundown through town, Ramseur their rear guard. General Archibald C. Godwin was killed here as his men rallied to him and is buried in this cemetery. As the sun set, this cemetery ridge was the southern anchor of the Confederate battle line, which stretched in an arch east and north of town to the vicinity of Fort Collier and Star Fort. Many of those buried here lie near where they fell in battle. The remains of many that died in local fields, homes, or hospitals between 1861 and 1865 are also interred in the hallowed rows or in family plots. Union dead lie in the National Cemetery just across Woodstock Lane.
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