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The “Union Withdrawal” wayside marker is one of several on the interpretive walking trail maintained by the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation. (39°00’56.1″N 78°18’44.8″W; see map below)
From the marker:
Union Withdrawal
Elements of Brigadier General James W. MacMillan’s 1st Division, XIX U.S. Corps, left their part of the earthworks to fight C.S. Major General John B. Gordon’s men closer to the Valley Pike. When Colonel Edward L. Molineux’s and Brigadier General Henry W. Birge’s Brigades of the 2nd Division reached this area, corps commander William H. Emory detached the 11th Connecticut Regiment from Molineux and sent it toward Belle Grove. The remainder of the XIX Corps units in the trenches continued westward, past Lieutenant Hezekiah Hinson’s 17th Battery Indiana Light Artillery, which was in position at the contact point between the two divisions.
Donated to the People of the United States
by
Colonel Charles Crawford,
USAF retired, of Pennsylvania
The marker is at the end of the walking trail that heads north from the Valley Pike (U.S. 11) at the monument to the 128th New York along the Valley Pike.
