Nov 20, 2019
Old Opequon Cemetery - VA
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Old Opequon Cemetery - VA
#CivilWar Opequon Creek “flow[ed] at the foot of a broad and thickly wooded gorge, with high and steep banks”. https://47thpennsylvania.wordpress.com/2017/09/03/sheridans-tide-turning-shenandoah-valley-campaign-from-lead-up-through-aftermath-virginia-july-december-1864/
Image: Opequon Crossing, c. 1930s (courtesy of Southern Methodist University).
#CivilWar 19 Sep 1864 About a quarter before twelve o’clock, at the sound of Sheridan’s bugles, repeated from corps, division, and brigade headquarters, the whole line moved forward with great spirit, and instantly became engaged. –Richard B. Irwin
Learn more about the Battle of Opequon, Virginia (aka “Third Winchester”).
Image: Battle of Opequan [Kurz & Allison, circa 1893, public domain courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress: LC-DIG-pga-01855 (digital file from original print) LC-USZC4-1753 (color film copy transparency)].
Battle of Opequon (Third Winchester for some of you) 150th
Battle of Opequon (Third Winchester for some of you) 150th
I missed out on the 150th activities held for Opequon, or Third Winchester, held yesterday. And spent much of today otherwise doing work. Very sorry to have fallen down on my Sesquicentennial tweeting. I do hope you’ve been able to follow the events by way of Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historic Park’s Twitter and Facebookfeeds. One of the postings yesterday provided a sense of the…
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