Re-enactment Battle of New Market

ID: 224 ~ Source: Herb Parker Postcard Collection
 ~ Creator: Shenandoah Publishing House, Strasburg Virginia
This file appears in: New Market Battlefield
Re-enactment Battle of New Market<br />

Postcard showing a reenactment of the Battle of New Market by US Marines and Virginia Military Institute Cadets on September 20 1923. Includes a description of the battle and note that the re-enactment attracted 150,000 spectators. .

This file appears in: New Market Battlefield

New Market Battlefield

By Shenandoah County Library
As part of his 1864 campaign, Union General Ulysses S. Grant ordered Federal forces under General Franz Sigel to march through the Shenandoah Valley and destroy the railroad and Confederate Army’s…