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New Market: Bushong Farmhouse
New Market: Bushong Farmhouse Bushong Farmhouse (1825), part of New Market Battlefield State Historical Park, served as a field hospital after the Civil War battle at New Market, Virginia.

New Market

Virginia, United States
Also known as: Crossroads
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New Market, town, Shenandoah county, northwestern Virginia, U.S., in the Shenandoah Valley. Laid out in 1784 and early known as Crossroads, it was incorporated in 1796 and renamed for the famous English horseracing town. This small community gained a place in American Civil War history when Confederate General John C. Breckinridge, in desperation, ordered the 257 cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington to join the fight in the hills to the north with...

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