This Bronze

Commemorates, To Generations

Which Knew Then Not,

The Virginia Volunteers

From Augusta In The Army

Of The Confederate States.

Twenty-Two Companies From

Here Followed By Jackson And

Stuart, With Many In Other Commands.

No Rebels They, But Worthy

Sons Of Patriotic Sites, Who

Took Arms In The Hour

Of Their State’s Extremity,

When Argument For Peace Was

Ended, To Defend The Soil,

The Homes And The Consti-

Tutional Rights Won By

Their Fathers. The World

Has Seen No Braver Nor

Truer Soldiery Than The

Yeomen Whose Deeds Made

Glorious This Valley Of The

Shenandoah, And Their Fame

Rests Secure As Their Native

Hills.

If They Justified Not The

Cause For Which They Were

Ready To Die, They Ennobled

Themselves, And May Be

“Forgiven By The Sons Of

Men Who For Conscience

Sake Fought Against Their

Government At Lexington

And Bunker Hill.”

Marker can be reached from West Beverly Street (State Highway 254), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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