Trenches on Hupp's Hill

Hupp's Hill was a strategically significant site occupied at different times by Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War. Union troops under Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan constructed extensive trenches here after defeating Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early’s Army of the Valley in the Battle of Cedar Creek on 19 Oct. 1864. Led by Maj. Hazard Stevens, the 1st and 3rd Brigades of the 2nd Division, Union VI Corps, built infantry breastworks and several artillery positions. The troops remained here until mid-November, when they moved to the vicinity of Kernstown. They were sent to the lines south of Petersburg in December as the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 came to an end.