Guard's Hill Affair
General Fitz Lee's cavalry, supported by a brigade of Kershaw's infantry, detached from Anderson's Corps at Front Royal, near here attacked Merritt of Sheridan's cavalry, August 16, 1864. Merritt, on being reinforced, drove the Confederates back across the river. then withdrew towards Charlestown.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
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Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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