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Corricks Ford Battlefield
First to Fall
"How gallantly he died in the discharge of his duty."
President Jefferson Davis CSA
On July 13, 1861, some 3,500 Confederate soldiers under Gen. Robert S. Garnett crossed Shavers Fork here while chased by Union forces in a desperate bid ...
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Corricks Ford Battlefield
Tale of the Monuments
"No shaft of shining marble, new
From the sculptor's hand we raise for you
No, here we lay
A boulder drawn from the river-side
Where brave men battled and bled and died."
Karl Myers, Ode to the
Battle of Corricks Ford, 1926
On US ...
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