Last updated: June 11, 2023
Place
Ramseur Monument
NPS Photo
Quick Facts
Location:
Middletown, Virginia
Significance:
Part of Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park
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The Major General Stephen D. Ramseur Monument is at the northwest corner of Belle Grove Road and Valley Pike (US Route 11). On October 19, 1864, General Ramseur was mortally wounded at Cedar Creek, taken prisoner, and brought to Belle Grove where he died the next day. Ramseur left his wife, Ellen, a widow, and Mary, his newly born daughter whom he had never met, fatherless. The North Carolina Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy erected and dedicated the monument in 1920. The inscription on the bronze plaque at the base reads:
Esse quam videri
Northwest of this tablet, 800 yards,
is the Belle Grove House in which died, October 20, 1864,
of wounds received at Cedar Creek October 19, 1864,
Maj.-Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur, C.S.A.
A native of North Carolina, he resigned from
the United States Army in 1861, and entering
the Confederate States Army as a Lieutenant
rose to rank of Major-General at the age of 27.Erected 1919 by
The North Carolina Historical Commission
and
The North Carolina Division, U.D.C.
Use extreme caution when visiting this monument. US Route 11 is busy, and there is no pull-off or parking next to the monument.