This statue was erected in memory of Confederate soldiers who died during the 1861 Cheat Mountain Valley campaign of the Civil War. It depicts a standing Confederate soldier holding the barrel of a rifle.
This small obelisk is located along Route 480 south of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. It commemorates the place of death of Col. James H. Drake of the 1st Virginia Cavalry who was killed on July 16, 1863 in a series of engagements in Jefferson County…