Touring the Shenandoah Valley Backroads by Andrea Sutcliffe

Author:Andrea Sutcliffe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blair

Shenstone Mansion

Stoneburner House

The town has a museum at 5901 Main Street that is open on Thursday and Friday afternoons and on Saturdays.

Continue north along U.S. 11. It is 0.8 mile from Union Church to a Confederate cemetery and a monument to Confederate soldiers, located on the left.

Directly across the street from the cemetery, the Confederacy built a large hospital complex consisting of three two-story buildings that could accommodate 500 soldiers. The hospital was run by a local physician, Dr. Andrew Russell Meem, whose staff tended sick and wounded soldiers who arrived by train from places like Gettysburg and Manassas. Colonel Levi Rinker, mentioned earlier in this tour, donated the land for the hospital and cemetery. After the war, the hospital was torn down and the lumber used to build a military installation at Rude’s Hill. That installation was used by Union forces during Reconstruction.

The cemetery contains the bodies of about 400 Civil War soldiers from 11 southern states, all of which have been identified.

The tour ends here. To return to I-81, follow the signs just beyond the cemetery.

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