Last updated: January 3, 2023
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Information Panel: Protecting the Supply Lines
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Securing Harpers Ferry as a supply base was essential during Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign in the fall of 1864. In front of you are the weathered remains of Battery #1 overlooking the mouth of the Shenandoah Valley. These fortifications built by Sheridan were never attacked by the Confederates.
Union wagons became favorite targets of the Confederate cavalry once beyond the safety of Bolivar Heights. Despite harrassment from Lt. Col. John S. Mosby's Rebel raiders, Sheridan successfully defeated Lt. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley in four major battles from September 19 through October 19, 1864.
Map Caption: Harpers Ferry's strategic location made it an important Union supply depot in 1864.
Illustration Caption: Attack on Sheridan's supply train at Berryville, Virginia.
Quotation: "...make all the valleys south of Baltimore and Ohio [rail]road a desert as high up as possible...so that crows flying over season will have to carry their provisions withi them." Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, July 17, 1864
Union wagons became favorite targets of the Confederate cavalry once beyond the safety of Bolivar Heights. Despite harrassment from Lt. Col. John S. Mosby's Rebel raiders, Sheridan successfully defeated Lt. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley in four major battles from September 19 through October 19, 1864.
Map Caption: Harpers Ferry's strategic location made it an important Union supply depot in 1864.
Illustration Caption: Attack on Sheridan's supply train at Berryville, Virginia.
Quotation: "...make all the valleys south of Baltimore and Ohio [rail]road a desert as high up as possible...so that crows flying over season will have to carry their provisions withi them." Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, July 17, 1864