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Guard Hill:
Battle of Front Royal -- May 23, 1862:
(Sign partially destroyed so couldn't see it all)
Closely pursued by the 8th Louisiana Infantry, Union Col. John R. Kenly's rear guard occupied Guard Hill just west of here. The two-gun section of Knap's Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, commanded by Lt. Charles Atwell, covered part of the peninsula between the North and South Forks of the Shenandoah River as the Confederates surged toward the North Fork Bridge.
... (missing part of sign) .... offered Kenly a good position to slow down the Southern advance. Atwell unlimbered his cannons on the height west of the turnpike, near Dr. Kenner's home, while the Infantry dug in on either side of the road to combat any attempt by the Confederates crossing at the bridge.
Atwell's guns held off the commands of Col. Bradley T. Johnson and Maj. Chatham Roberdeau Wheat for almost an hour, despite being shelled by Capt. John A. Lusk's Confederate battery from Atwell's former position on Richardson Hill.
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