Cedar Creek • Tour the Battlefield • Battle Maps • The Armies
As the battle continued north less than an hour after dawn the fog was still dense. The noise of the Union 8th Corps being overrun warned the 19th Corps, who manned their trenches – which faced the wrong way. Nine hundred men of Thomas’ brigade were pulled from the right of the Union line and marched across the Valley Pike to buy time while the rest of the 19th Corps modified their position to defend their suddenly vulnerable flank. Thomas’ desperate stand – centered around the current location of the 8th Vermont Monument – lasted only ten minutes but cost the majority of the brigade. The Confederates of Kershaw’s and Evans’ Divisions ground through the 19th Corps position and continued north toward the 6th Corps camps. At the same time Ramseur’s and Pegram’s divisions struck toward Belle Grove.
Three monuments and a number of historical markers are in the central area of the Cedar Creek battlefield:
monuments
Confederate Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur
8th Vermont Infantry
128th New York Infantry
markers
1st Maine Battery
128th New York Regiment
Battlefield Center
Battle of Cedar Creek (Circle Tour)
Battle of Cedar Creek (BMA)
Heater House
Molineux’s 2nd Brigade
Tomb of an Unknown Soldier
Union Trenches
Union Withdrawal
Cedar Creek Driving Tour
Stop 1 – Valley Pike
The driving tour starts at the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation Battlefield Headquarters. From the parking area turn left onto the Valley Pike for 0.9 mile, then turn left on Water Plant Road. Go to the Long Meadow tour page for the next part of the driving tour, then return to this page. Continuing from the Long Meadow page, turn right onto U.S. Route 11, continue north just 75 yards and turn left onto the gravel access road. Park in the lot beyond the 128th New York monument.
Stop 5 – New York Monument.
Turn left onto U.S. Route 11 and continue north for 0.7 mile. Turn left onto Belle Grove Road and continue 0.5 mile.
Stop 6 – Belle Grove.
Turn right onto Belle Grove Road and continue 0.1 mile. Turn right onto Meadow Mills Road and continue 0.8 mile until it dead ends at Veteran Road.
Continue on to the Middletown and North tour page.