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Devil's Den Nature Preserve is a 241-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.
On July 2, 1863, Smith's Union battery, with six Napoleon smooth-bores, used the hill to counterfire on Confederate artillery prior to McLaws' Assault at 5:30 pm. [5] Against Hood's Assault that started at 4 pm, Devil's Den was defended by Birney's 1st Division as the far left position from The Peach Orchard Salient of the III Corps.
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 ...
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 ...
The battery atop Devil's Den continued firing for as long as they could but were soon overrun by the pressing Confederate forces. The two comingled regiments of the 1st Texas and the 15th Georgia were soon joined by the 20th Georgia and 44th Alabama and together they took on the combination of the remainder of the 124th New York, the 4th Maine ...
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The brigade's most famous action took place on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, during its fight for Devil's Den. Though the Confederacy ultimately lost that battle, the 1st Texas , 4th Texas, 5th Texas, and 3d Arkansas distinguished themselves in taking Devil's Den despite being greatly outnumbered and suffering heavy casualties, to ...