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Postcard showing the 54th PA Infantry Monument located on the New Market Battlefield.

Postcard showing the "Federal Positions" on the site of the New Market Battlefield.

Color postcard showing a view of the area around Fishers Hill in northern Shenandoah County. The view is facing west. The Shenandoah River can be seen in the foreground and Fishers Hill is in the mid-ground.

The small unincorporated community of…

Postcard showing the Hall of Valor located at the New Market Battlefield. The site is operated by the Virginia Military Institute and is currently known as the Virginia Museum of the Civil War.

Photo of a framed oval portrait of Harrison Holt Riddleberger wearing an army uniform from the Confederate States of America.

Riddleberger served in the Confederate army (CSA) during the American Civil War. He was attached to the 23rd Virginia…

Photo of an oval-framed photograph of John Augustine Washington, III.

He was the great grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon.

During the US Civil War, he was a Lt. Colonel in the Confederate Army.

In…

Portrait of John Grabill in his later years.

Grabill was a Confederate veteran and the first Superintendent of Shenandoah County Public Schools. He was also the publisher of the Shenandoah Herald Newspaper in Woodstock for many years.

John…

Letter sent by Shenandoah County resident Christopher Fansler to Mary C. Fansler in August 1863. At the time Christopher, a native of Woodstock VA, was serving in the Confederate Army's 12th Cavalry Regiment and was stationed in Culpeper Virginia.…

December 17 (1862)

Shenandoah County

Dear brother I seat my self to drop you a few line to let you no that we are all well at present and hope that when these few lines come to hand they may find you in the Same state of health. They say that…

Postcard showing the 62nd Virginia's monument at the Battle of New Market.

Undated photograph showing the Private Soldier Monument at what is now the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg Maryland.

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Heavily damaged image of the stone monument honoring the 1864 Battle of New Market, a significant event of the Civil War.

Cannons on temporary stands and flags flanking the monument may indicate this photograph was taken at the dedication…

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph showing the Hall of Valor under construction.

The hall opened in 1970 and is the central building at the New Market Battlefield and is currently home to the Virginia Museum of the Civil War.

This photograph was taken by local…

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the New Market Battlefield's Hall of Valor building under construction.
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