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Devil's Den Nature Preserve is a 280-acre (113 ha) privately-owned nature preserve in Carroll County, Virginia. The preserve contains rugged rock formations on a ridge side, featuring a cave or rock shelter known as Devil's Den. The property was once the Robert S. Harris farm. . [1]
Boundary of the Devil's Den – Ewing Mountain wildland in the Jefferson National Forest as identified by the Wilderness Society. [1]The area is located in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwestern Virginia about 3 miles east of Cripple Creek, Virginia, between Va 602 on the west and south, and Va 94 on the east and Va 642 on the north.
Devil's Den [1] is a boulder-strewn hill on the end of Houck's Ridge at Gettysburg Battlefield, used by artillery and sharpshooters on the second day of the 1863 ...
Devil's Den was located at the extreme left of the III Corps line, manned by the large brigade (six regiments and two companies of sharpshooters, 2,200 men in all) of Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward, in Maj. Gen. David B. Birney's division. It was the southern end of Houck's Ridge, a modest elevation on the northwest side of Plum Run Valley ...
"Was 1 of 6 volunteers who charged upon a log house near Devil's Den, where a squad of the enemy's sharpshooters were sheltered, and compelled their surrender." Edward L. Gilligan: First Sergeant 88th Pennsylvania Infantry: July 1, 1863 April 30, 1892 "Assisted in the capture of a Confederate flag by knocking down the color sergeant."
Devil's Den State Park, in West Fork, Arkansas; Devils Den, California, a historic settlement near Salt Spring in Kern County, California; Devil's Den Preserve, in Fairfield County, Connecticut; Devil's Den Cave, in Williston, Florida; Devil's Den Nature Preserve, in Carroll County, Virginia; The Devil's Den, a burial chamber in Wiltshire ...
Culp's Hill defenses, afternoon, July 2, 1863. By mid-morning of July 2, 1863, the XII Corps arrived and fortified the hill. Brig. Gen. George S. Greene, who at 62 was the oldest Union general on the field, was a brigade commander in the division of Maj. Gen. John W. Geary.
Monument to 124th New York at Gettysburg's Devil's Den, featuring Colonel Ellis. After the war, the citizens of Orange County raised money to erect a monument to the 124th Regiment at Gettysburg. Dedicated on July 2, 1884, it was the first regimental New York monument placed on the field.