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The following photos/text courtesy of Alan M. Di Sciullo, Esq., Princeton Jct, NJ

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Tour Stop-3 Prospect Hill
 
Prospect Hill Cemetery
 
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Tour Stop-3 Prospect Hill
 
Here Confederate artillery under Colonel Stapleton Crutchfield posted smoothbore cannons which swept the town below but which were no match for Union rifled guns firing from Richardson's Hill on the north side of town

The Confederate monument is ringed by a circle of Confederate graves

     

Tour Stop-4 Warren County Court House
 
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This is the site of the original Warren County Court House occupied by Union troops during the battle. As the battle flowed down from the Courthouse, fighting was house to house as the Union troops retreated north to Richardson's Hill

 
Interpretive Marker: The Courthouse
 
Interpretive Marker: Battle of Front Royal

   

Tour Stop-5 Bel Air
 
Bel Air was the home of William and Elizabeth Buck during the battle and dates back to 1795. Their daughter, Luck Buck, witnessed the battle and recorded her observations in a diary
 
Lucy recorded how the Union troops scampered over the meadow below the Buck house in their retreat northwards

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