The Battle of Piedmont was fought June 5, 1864, in the village of Piedmont, Augusta County, Virginia. Union Maj. Gen. David Hunter engaged Confederates under Brig. Gen. William E. "Grumble" Jones north of Piedmont. After severe fighting, Jones was killed and the Confederates were routed. Hunter occupied Staunton on June 6 and soon began to advance on Lynchburg, destroying military stores and public property in his wake.
The 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry attacked from right to left in this picture, toward the Middle River in the vicinity of the barn, where they herded up hundreds of prisoners.
Battlefield monument on the roadside.
Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. Its county seat is Staunton, but most of the administrative services have offices in neighboring Verona.
The Augusta County Courthouse in March 2005
Augusta Stone Church built in 1749
View of Augusta County countryside across the Shenandoah Valley toward the Blue Ridge Mountains.
I-64 and I-81 in Augusta County
