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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.27 (search)
Desperate picket fight against superior force.
From the times-dispatch, October 13, 1908.
Fisher's Hill scene of battle Royal in Civil War when two hundred old Confederates oppose, with honor, Federal force of over 2,000.
Late in March, 1863, General William E. Jones, going on a raid into West Virginia, left in the rregular chain of hills reaching nearly across the Valley, and along this chain Major Meyers thought proper to establish his picket line, with the reserve near Fisher's Hill, on the Valley Turnpike.
The Valley Turnpike is cut in the steep western side of Fisher's Hill from summit to base, having a stone wall on its left or lower sFisher's Hill from summit to base, having a stone wall on its left or lower side and an abroupt bank on its upper side, both increasing in heighth as the road goes down the hill, until it reaches the height of thirty feet, where the stone bridge and pike leave the hill at a right angle, crosses over the rough, rocky ravine, with its swift stream, along the base of the stone wall.
On the east side, steep
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)