| Title |
New Market Gap, New Market, Virginia, circa 1915-1926
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| Description |
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.
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| Extent |
2 images; Postcard; color |
| Date |
1915/1926 |
| Location |
United States; New Market; Massanutten Mountain; Strasburg; North America; Virginia |
| Subject(s) |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Valleys; Postcards |
| Citation |
Institute of American Deltiology Postcard Collection, Series Virginia, Box 13 |
| Permanent Link |
https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/15026
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| Rights |
http://vocab.lib.umd.edu/rightsStatement#NoC-US
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| Digital Collection(s) |
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- National Trust Library Postcards
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