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Article: Saving a Civil War Legacy In Va.'s Shenandoah Valley; Deal Protects Land On Which a Decisive Battle Was Fought [Correction 11/20/08]
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- The Washington Post
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- November 14, 2008
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In 1762, the Huntsberry family settled the land along Redbud Run,
outside Winchester, with a deed from Lord Fairfax. Eight generations
later, Bob Huntsberry spent his summers there as a child, finding
rusted Minie balls that had been fired from the muskets of Civil War
soldiers. He grew up steeped in elders' stories of the day, late in
the summer of 1864, when Union Gen. Philip Sheridan and 39,000
troops came marching in.
Now, Huntsberry, 80, has reached a $3.35 million deal with Civil
War preservation groups to protect the land and with it, the little-
known legacy of a decisive event in the war.
The sale will preserve 209 acres of woods and hayfields on one of
Northern Virginia's most ...