Summary: | Stickley House, near Strasburg, Virginia, circa 1941-1960. Caption reads: "This house, built in 1859, is on the Shenandoah Valley Pike midway between Strasburg and Middletown, Va. It was used as a field hospital during the Battle of Cedar Creek October 19, 1864, between the Federal forces under Sheridan and the Confederates under Early. Scores of operations and amputations were performed in the house." |
Provider: | Potomac Edison System |
Century: | 1901-2000 |
Place of origin – Continent: | North America |
Place of origin – Country: | United States of America |
Temporal subject: |
1941-1950
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1951-1960
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Geographical subject – Continent: | North America |
Geographical subject – Country: | United States of America |
Geographical subject – Region: | Virginia |
Geographical subject – Settlement: | Strasburg |
Middletown |
Topical subjects: | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 |
Battlefields |
Houses |
Medical aspects of war |
Genre: | Postcards |
ArchivesUM location: | Institute of American Deltiology postcard collection |
Repository: | National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection |
Browse terms: | Architecture, Landscape, Historic Places |
War, Military |
Collection: | National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection |
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