"The Rockbridge Artillery A Brief History of the Battery" Topic

"This famous battery fired the first cannon shots in the Shenandoah Valley at Hainesville on July 2, 1861. The Rockbridge cannoneers shed their first blood in the Confederate victory at Bull Run. Under Stonewall Jackson they endured the Bath-Romney campaign during January 1862. In the Valley campaign they fought with distinction at Kernstown, Winchester and Port Republic. The Stonewall Battery earned new honours at Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg.

The Rockbridge gunners defended the heights of Fredericksburg during the Chancellorsville campaign, aided in the capture of Winchester, bombarded the Union lines on Culp's Hill at Gettysburg, defended the river crossing at Rappahannock Station, and helped drive back Meade's forces at Mine Run in 1863.

In 1864 the Rockbridge Battery aided Lee in stopping Grant's advance at Spotsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor. During the defence of Richmond the First Rockbridge Artillery frustrated Federal attacks on that city and in so doing lost its guns at Deep Bottom. Quickly re-armed, the battery continued to man the defences of Richmond until April, 1865…"
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I have a little diorama I made of the Rockbridge at Gettysburg for a friend – gotta love a battery where they name their guns "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John"

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