This Rustic Pile is a monument created by veterans of the 1864 Battle of New Market, Virginia. The monument was erected in 1909 by the surviving members of Confederate Captain Charles Hugh Woodson’s Company A, First Missouri Cavalry. It marks the location in the Bushong orchard where the Confederate line formed for attack.
From the marker:
This rustic pile
The simple tale will tell:
It marks the spot
Where Woodson’s Heroes fell.
The story of “Woodson’s Heros” – Company A, First Missouri Cavalry – and their unusual path to New Market is told on the nearby wayside marker, “Good-bye, Lieutenant, I am killed.”
Location
The marker is in the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park, on the west side of the George R. Collins Parkway about 350 feet north of the Bushong farmhouse. The Collins Parkway can be reached from Old Cross Road at New Market immediately to the west of Interestate 81 exit 178.