Just to the west took place the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, May 9, 1864. The Union General Crook, raiding to destroy the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad (N.&W.), met and repulsed General A. G. Jenkins, who was mortally wounded.

Marker is at the intersection of Cleburne Boulevard (Virginia Route 100) and Laboratory Street (Virginia Route 790), on the right when traveling south on Cleburne Boulevard.

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