General Barnard Elliott Bee
General
Barnard Elliott Bee
of South Carolina
Commander, Third Brigade
Army of the Shenandoah
was killed here July 21, 1861
Just before his death
to rally his scattered troops
he gave this command
“Form. form. There stands Jackson
like a stone wall:
Rally behind the Virginians.”
Presented by
The Mary Taliaferro Thompson
Southern Memorial Assn.
of Washington, D.C. - July 21, 1939.
(Rear of Monument):
Lucy Steele Clay
Chairman
Alice Boswell Morrison
Julia Neason Streater
Maude Bird Phares
Norma Hardy Britton
Marker can be reached from Sudley Road (Virginia Route 234) south of Lee Highway (U.S. 29).
Courtesy hmdb.org
