History is vanishing...but you can change that!
Saving Civil War battlefields ensures a visible piece of the past and creates an outdoor classroom
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You Make A Difference & We Want To Say Thank You
As our way to thank you for donating to our Overland Campaign Anniversary Campaign, we are offering a copy of Annie Flora Myer's Recipes & Remedies, In Her Own Hand. It's a limited reprint of a local historical resource, directly tied to the civilian stories from the Battle of Myer's Hill.
Annie Myer was just a little girl when the Civil War exploded in her Central Virginia community. After the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, her father—John Myer—moved the family to a farm near Spotsylvania Court House, hoping to protect them from the war.
However, on May 14, 1864, Union and Confederate troops battled over the hill where Annie's home stood. The Battle of Myer's Hill resulted in a pitted Union Brigadier General Emory Upton, a bold officer fresh off an innovative attack against the Mule Shoe on May 10, against one of the most irascible, hard-fighting generals in the Confederate army, Robert E. Lee’s “Bad Old Man,” Maj. Gen. Jubal Early. After a day of fighting with attack and counterattack, Federal troops held the hill at the end of the day...and they burned the home where Annie Myer lived.
This is just one example of the countless stories you preserve when a piece of battlefield is saves forever. Central Virginia Battlefields Trust is saving 73.3 acres of Myer's Hill battlefield, thanks to your generous support.