Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Moorefield” in article 1 of The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource]:
...alley.
It was believed that this movement was made with the design of destroying the large iron furnaces along the river in that region.
On Friday night last a detachment from the Yankee force at Moorefield , numbering about seventy-five, set fire to and destroyed the Columbia Furnace, about five miles north of Edinburgh, Shenandoah county.
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