Battle of Hanging Rock

Commemorating

Battle of Hanging Rock

June 21, 1864.

Marker is on Catawba Valley Drive (Virginia Route 311) north of North Electric Road (Virginia Route 419), on the right when traveling west.

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Battle of Hanging Rock

About 2.5 miles south is Hanging Rock, where Maj. Davie surprised a British force, Aug. 1, 1780, and killed or wounded most of them. There also, Aug. 6, 1780, Col. Hill, Col. Irwin, and Maj. Davie, all under Gen. Sumter, ...

The Battle Of The Hanging Rock

Here was fought the Battle

of the Hanging Rock

August 6, 1780

About 600 Militia

of the Carolinas under

Colonel Thomas Sumter

destroyed the British Camp

and killed and wounded over

200 of the British Troops

under Major John Carden ...

The Battle of Hanging Rock

A Union Retreat Disrupted

On June 21, 1864, following two days of fighting at Lynchburg, Confederate Gen. Robert Ransom’s cavalry, pursuing Union Gen. David Hunter’s retreating column, engaged in a conflict that would ultimately become known as the Battle of Hanging ...