Historical Highway Markers

Battle of Cloyd's Mountain

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Just to the west took place the battle of Cloyd's Mountain, May 9, 1864. The Union General Crook, raiding to destroy the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad (N.&W.), met and repulsed General A. G. Jenkins, who was mortally wounded.

Department of Historic Resources, 1991

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