The Stonewalls of Bolivar Heights Traditional Cache
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The Stonewalls of Bolivar Heights
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This should be a quick cache and dash. Nothing to hard about this one. The container is a key holder. Bring your own writing tool.
This area was the training site used by Stonewall Jackson. On April 28, 1861 – just ten days after Virginia seceded from the Union – Colonel Thomas J. Jackson arrived at Harpers Ferry to assume his first command of the Civil War. He spent the next six weeks drilling thousands of Virginia volunteers encamped on Bolivar Heights before withdrawing south into the Shenandoah Valley.
Later this same site would become the site of the largest capture of Federal Forces during the Civil War. Major General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson returned to Harpers Ferry on September 13, 14 and 15, 1862. Now a celebrated Confederate commander and one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals, Jackson took possession of Maryland Heights, Loudoun Heights, and School House Ridge, trapping the Union Garrison inside Harpers Ferry. "Stonewall's Brilliant Victory" secured the surrender of 12,500 Union troops.
Shortly after the Civil War a Union soldier returned to Bolivar Heights and built a stone castle here. The caste existed here for 100 years.
Today there are no more stone walls just wooden fences.
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