Battle of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, Virginia

The Battle Of Lynchburg

Hamilton Historical Records

From June 17 to 18, 1864, the Battle of Lynchburg fought two miles outside Lynchburg, Virginia. The Union Army of West Virginia, under Maj. Gen. David Hunter, attempted to capture the city but was repulsed by Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early.

Published by Hamilton Historical Records

I'm a historian and legal expert from Virginia who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower, founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, and President Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s