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Article: Federals on 'safe' road to trouble.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2005
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Byline: Steve French, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Bunker Hill, Va., is a name that frequently appeared in the reports of many Civil War officers and the letters and diaries of soldiers from both sides.
Located on the Valley Pike, about halfway between Winchester and Martinsburg in what is now West Virginia, this peaceful village was a favorite camping site for both armies. On the afternoon of Saturday, June 13, 1863, however, its tranquillity was shattered when it suddenly became a battleground, just like its Revolutionary War namesake in Massachusetts.
The sequence of events that led to the clash at Bunker Hill began early that morning at ...