 |
This is site
of the original Warren County Court House occupied by the
Federal troops during the Battle of Front Royal.
|
|
Officials records of Front Royal were removed and housed
in different areas of the town. Martial law was very
strict during the occupation of the town as witnessed by
several original diaries written during this period.
Official records were safeguarded from Federal forces to
ease the restrictions on families within the community,
Records were hidden during the day and move about from
home to home for their safe keeping and protection.
|
|
Click here to view
The Court House Sign
|
Events at the
Court House
|
In June of
1861, the Confederate Government established three
military hospitals in Front royal. These two-story barrack
style buildings were directly across the street to the
west. The court House in 1862 was in the exact
location as it stands today. The hospitals and the Court
House were occupied by the Union Troops at the start of
the Battle.
|
 |
The tide of battle flowed from the Court House down
Crescent Street toward Chester Street. The fighting at
this point was from house to house as the Federal Troops
retreated north to Richardson's Hill.
The eager and direct response by the citizens of Front
Royal caught the Southern soldiers by surprise.
Disregarding to the danger the secessionist women ran out
into the street to greet their liberators, waving their
bonnets, cheering and screaming. A Confederate
soldier writes, "Indeed the ladies were perfectly
regardless of danger, balls flying in every direction, but
there they stood pointing out where some Yankees had
hidden and encouraging us in every way."
 When
this day ended these same ladies would adapt tot he
horrors of War and became nurses , caring for the wounded.
|
Confederate
Military Hospitals
Established in Front Royal
|
|
General Richard Stoddard Ewell
|
|
As Jackson’s Army pushed the first Federal companies into
town, the Southerners came upon one of the hospitals. From
the building’s large windows came “hot musketry fire.”
General Ewell turned to Colonel Bradley Johnson and asked,
“Colonel, can you take that building?” Johnson replied,
“Yes, sir, in five minutes.” The Marylanders in front
charged and the building was taken in half the time
promised. (Source: Volume II,
“Confederate Military History; Maryland by Brig Gen.
Bradley Johnson.” Edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans. P 71)
|
|
Picture depicts wooden hospitals built to house wounded
soldiers (not Front Royal buildings).
|
|
Next Stop 5 Bel Air
|
|
[ Home ] [ Up ] [ Departure- Visitor Center ] [ Stop 1 Asbury Chapel ] [ Stop 2 Belle Boyd ] [ Stop 3 Prospect Hill ] [ Stop 4 Court House ] [ Stop 5 Bel Air ] [ Stop 6 Rose Hill ] [ Stop 7 Richardson's Hill ] [ Stop 8 Bridges ] [ Stop 9 Guard Hill ] [ Stop 10 Fairview ] [ Buckton Station ] [ "Stonewall" Jackson ] [ John S. Mosby ] [ Hotchkiss Statements ] [ Capture of the Flag ] [ Riverside ]
|
