Скачать или смотреть Raw - 161st Anniversary of The Battle of 3rd Winchester Tour of Fort Collier - Jonathan Noyalas P 2

On Saturday, September 20, Shenandoah University's McCormick Civil War Institute will once again team up with the Fort Collier Civil War Center to commemorate the anniversary of the Third Battle of Winchester, at 9:30 a.m. MCWI's director, Jonathan Noyalas, will lead an interpretive program--"I Hope it Will Never be Used"--focused on the construction and early wartime use of Fort Collier. Noyalas's program will last approximately one hour. After the tour, there are other things planned at Fort Collier.

Built by Confederate Lieutenant Collier and Virginia militia with the aid of Federal prisoners, the Fort Collier redoubt guarded the north entrance of Winchester, Virginia, on the east side of the Martinsburg Pike. During later Federal occupations, it was known as Battery No. 10. The fort was set on low ground and generally offered slight military advantage, except as a guard post for the pike. Lieutenant General Jubal Early used it as part of his defensive works in the Third Battle of Winchester.

The fort is located on a tract of land acquired by Benjamin Stine from Jacob Baker in 1859. Shortly afterwards, the American Civil War began, and extensive defensive preparations were made in the northern Shenandoah Valley. After General Joseph E. Johnston assumed command of Confederate forces centered in Harpers Ferr,y he quickly decided that Harpers Ferry was indefensible, and to re-center his defensive posture based in Winchester. The Stine farmstead and homesite was located on high ground alongside the valley pike, and made a natural defensive position for the north end of town, and was chosen as the site for the fort by Confederate Engineer Lieutenant Collier and William Henry Chase.