Battle of New Market

Shenandoah Valley, May 1864

In 1864, Union forces were pressing the Confederacy from many directions. Mississippi was now in Union hands, Sherman was marching to the sea, Grant was advancing toward Richmond, Butler left Fort Monroe to get between Richmond and Petersburg, and Sigel and Crook were active in the Shenandoah Valley.

Union General Franz Sigel had fought in Prussia and was popular with German-American troops. Grant sent him from Martinsburg southward to secure Staunton in the Shenandoah Valley. He only got as far as New Market, which is north of Harrisonburg.

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Sigel followed the Valley Pike southward to New Market		He was delayed at Rude's Hill	Lecture near Smith Creek
This was the eastern part of the battlefield		Monument in cemetery	Post hit by shell
Panorama of New Market Battlefield as seen from the Hall of Valor

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