New Market Battlefield - Part 1

Today I visited the Virginia Museum of the Civil War and the adjacent New Market Battlefield, about a mile north of New Market, Virginia.  On May 15th, 1864, Confederate troops including cadets from Virginia Military Academy under the command of Major General (and former Vice President) John Breckinridge defeated a Union force led by Major General Franz Sigel.  (General Sigel was originally from the duchy of Baden in Germany.)  Inside the museum is a statue of three men apparently engaged in some kind of tussel.

The museum included numerous exhibitions, such as this Williams rapid fire gun.

In front of the museum's main entrance is statue of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

Also in front of the museum is the word "love" spelled with various artifacts.

A short distance away from the museum is the Bushong farm.  According to The Historical Marker Database, a settler named Henry Bushong patented a 260-acre tract of land in 1791.  His son Jacob built a home on the property in 1825, which was expanded in 1852.  Across the road from the house is this brass (or maybe brass-plated) cannon, with Interstate highway 81 right behind it.

Here's the main Bushong house from its southern corner, the view partially obscured by a tree.  Toward the right are an outdoor oven and a summer kitchen behind it.  The upper level of the kitchen is believed to have housed slaves.

Behind the Bushong house is the barn.

Here's the back of the main Bushong house.

This shot shows the kitchen and slave dwelling from a different angle, along with an ice house and another small house that was built in 1818, before the main house was built.

Half of this building was used to store meat, with the other half housing a loom.

This concludes my tour of the Bushong farm, but there were some other things to see in and around the battlefield.