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Article • A Victory Turned From Disaster
A Rich Prize
Sketch by James E. Taylor, an artist for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1864
7:00 a.m.—Belle Grove was Union headquarters, and thus was surrounded by hundreds of supply wagons, ambulances, and tents. As the Confederate advance neared the plantation manor house there was a scramble to evacuate them to safety. Most escaped capture. The fighting around Belle Grove was intense as every effort was made to slow the Confederate advance and bring up the 6th Corps, which up to this point had not been engaged. But as the 6th Corps advanced, fleeing men of the 19th Corps, along with dense fog, disrupted their battle lines.
Sketch by James E. Taylor, an artist for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1864
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- Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park
Belle Grove Plantation
- Type: Place
- Locations: Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park
Belle Grove is located in the northern Shenandoah Valley near Middletown, Virginia. It was the home Major Isaac Hite and his wife Nelly Madison Hite. Major Hite used enslaved labor to expand his original 483 acres to a prosperous 7500 acre plantation, growing wheat, raising livestock, and operating a large distillery and several mills. The Manor House, completed in 1797, was the centerpiece of the property and is open for touring today.
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Last updated: December 17, 2021