New York 5th Heavy Artillery, Battery D (Union)

Lynchburg

The Union threat forced Robert E. Lee to dispatch General Jubal Early with his Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia to defend Lynchburg. On June 17 and 18, the opposing forces clashed, resulting in a Union retreat all the way into West Virginia, leaving the Valley open for another Confederate advance into the North.READ MORE

Cool Spring

A Union column under Maj. Gen. Horatio Wright, consisting of the Sixth Corps and elements of the Nineteenth Corps, pursued Maj. Gen. Jubal Early's army as it withdrew from the environs of Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1864. Early had moved down the Shenandoah Valley, beat a Union force at Monocacy, Maryland and threatened the capital with an attack on Fort Stevens. Wright's force was joined by elements of Gen. George R. Crook's command, which had accompanied Gen. David Hunter during his retreat through…READ MORE