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Battle of Cloyd's Mountain K-38 |
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 Picture Courtesy of Garry Thompson
In April 1864 Grant ordered Brig. Gen. George Crook to cut the Virginia & Tennessee RR in Southwest Virginia. Near Cloyd’s Mountain, five miles north of Dublin, on 9 May Crook battled Confederate defenders commanded by Brig. Gen. Albert G. Jenkins. Attacking Jenkins’s right flank, Crook drove him from his earthworks after a sharp engagement with heavy casualties on both sides. Jenkins was mortally wounded and lost 538 of 2,400 men (23 percent). Crook severed the railroad at Dublin and withdrew on 11 May.
Department of Historic Resources 1991
VA Rt. 100, .5 mile north of Walker Road - Marker is in the median, north of Dublin. Pulaski County Virginia
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