Summary: | New Market Gap, New Market, Virginia, circa 1915-1926. Message reads: "I am most melted Hope you feel well. Mrs. Groups sister died today at hospital, she does not know. Love, Ellen." Caption reads: "New Market Gap, New Market, Virginia. This gap in the Massanutten Mountain opposite New Market presents a natural highway route to the Luray Valley beyond. Stonewall Jackson followed this road in May, 1862, when he turned aside from the Valley Pike to execute a flank movement on the unsuspecting General Banks, who was fortified at Strasburg. Jackson's famous 'foot cavalry' was driving in the Union outpost at Front Royal, when Banks supposed the enemy at Harrisonburg. The Massanutten at New Market is a single and not a triple ridge, as is the case at Front Royal, Strasburg and Woodstock." Postmark date: August 12, 1926; Postcard number: 67; Message included. |
Provider: | Shenandoah Publishing House |
Century: | 1901-2000 |
Place of origin – Continent: | North America |
Place of origin – Country: | United States of America |
Place of origin – Region: | Virginia |
Place of origin – Settlement: | Strasburg |
Temporal subject: |
1911-1920
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1921-1930
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Geographical subject – Continent: | North America |
Geographical subject – Zone : | Massanutten Mountain |
Geographical subject – Country: | United States of America |
Geographical subject – Region: | Virginia |
Geographical subject – Settlement: | New Market |
Topical subjects: | Valleys |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
Genre: | Postcards |
ArchivesUM location: | Institute of American Deltiology Postcard Collection
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Repository: | National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection |
Browse terms: | Architecture, Landscape, Historic Places |
Copyright holder: | Unknown |
Collection: | National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection |
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