Qualla: Battle of Lewisburg https://qualla.com/battle-of-lewisburg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/z/battle-of-lewisburg-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Lewisburg https://qualla.com/battle-of-lewisburg Battle of Lewisburg: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lewisburg/ Photo credit Jumpy542, CC0. Just before sunrise on May 23, 1862, three Confederate regiments crested a ridge east of Lewisburg, West Virginia, and looked down at the sleeping Union camp below. They had marched fast through the night to surprise a numerically smaller Federal force - about 1,300 men of the Third Provisional Brigade, under a thirty-three-year-old West Point colonel named George Crook. The Confederates had artillery on the ridge and momentum on their side. What they did not have, as it turned out, was time. By the time the Lewisburg courthouse clock struck seven, the Confederate attack had collapsed in confusion through the town's streets, Crook's Ohio and Loyal Virginia regiments had captured four cannons, and the Battle of Lewisburg was over - a tidy Union victory that helped make Crook's career.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/z/battle-of-lewisburg-wp/dnwz-battle-of-lewisburg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lewisburg: Two Armies, Two Problems https://qualla.com/battle-of-lewisburg/ Photo credit O.N. Snow with modifications by TwoScarsUp, Public domain. The campaign that brought Crook to Lewisburg began with John C. Fremont's Mountain Department plan to push south against Confederate forces in southwest Virginia. Crook's brigade, headquartered at Meadow Bluff in Greenbrier County, was the eastern arm of a two-prong advance. His ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/z/battle-of-lewisburg-wp/dnwz-battle-of-lewisburg-two-armies-two-problems.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Lewisburg: The Night March https://qualla.com/battle-of-lewisburg/ Photo credit TwoScarsUp, CC BY 4.0. Heth had numerical superiority and the element of surprise. He marched his men hard through the night of May 22-23, climbing the ridge east of Lewisburg in the darkness with four pieces of artillery. By dawn his line was forming on the high ground overlooking the town, the cannon...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/z/battle-of-lewisburg-wp/dnwz-battle-of-lewisburg-the-night-march.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Lewisburg: The Confederate Collapse https://qualla.com/battle-of-lewisburg/ Photo credit Ken Thomas, Public domain. What happened over the next ninety minutes is the kind of small-unit confusion that decides battles when one side is inexperienced. The 45th Virginia, fighting its first engagement, took heavy fire from the Ohioans climbing the ridge. The 22nd Virginia, on Heth's other flank, bec...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/z/battle-of-lewisburg-wp/dnwz-battle-of-lewisburg-the-confederate-collapse.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Lewisburg: The Town That Stayed https://qualla.com/battle-of-lewisburg/ Photo credit NatalieMaynor from Jackson, Mississippi, USA, CC BY 2.0. Lewisburg's residents had spent the morning under fire from both sides. Civilians sheltered in cellars and behind stone walls as Confederate artillery shells flew over and Union infantry pushed through residential streets. The Old Stone Presbyterian Church, built in 1796 and stil...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/w/z/battle-of-lewisburg-wp/dnwz-battle-of-lewisburg-the-town-that-stayed.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Lewisburg: Aviator's Notes https://qualla.com/battle-of-lewisburg/ Photo credit O.N. Snow with modifications by TwoScarsUp, Public domain. The battle was fought at and around 37.80 N, 80.45 W in the streets of Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, at an elevation around 2,300 feet. The nearest commercial airport is Greenbrier Valley Regional (KLWB) at Lewisburg, just west of the historic district. From altitu...

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