Civil War Action in Edinburg AB2 Virginia historical marker

Tom’s Brook to Edinburg

The Civil War Action in Edinburg AB2 Virginia historical marker was erected in 1995 in Edinburg, Virginia by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. The marker is next to the monument to Colonel Turner Ashby and the 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment.

The Civil War Action in Edinburg AB2 Virginia historical marker was erected in 1995 in Edinburg, Virginia by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 

From the marker:

AB2
Civil War Action
in Edinburg

During Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall”
Jackson’s 1862 Valley campaign, Confederate
Col. Turner Ashby’s cavalry and Chew’s Battery
halted Union Maj Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s
steady advance southward. Ashby engaged Union
forces 28 times in April along Stony Creek and
the Valley Pike. Confederate guns located on
Cemetery Hill to the southwest, dueled with Union
batteries on Academy Hill directly across
the center of Edinburg. In early October 1864,
during their burning of the Shenandoah Valley,
Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s troopers set the
Edinburg Mill afire but extinguished it after
two local girls protested.

Erected 1995 by Dept. of Historic Resources.

The monument to Colonel Turner Ashby's 7th Virginia Cavalry with a tablet listing the officers and men of Company C is in Edinburg, Virginia.

The marker is next to the monument to Colonel Turner Ashby and the 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment

Location

The monument is in Edinburg, Virginia, 200 feet north of Main Street (U.S. 11) on the east side of Stoney Creek Boulevard. (38°49’17.4″N 78°33’58.7″W)