View of Sugar Loaf, near Swoope’s Depot in Augusta County
With many of their homes behind lines, horse soldiers of the Laurel Brigade spent their last winter of the war in quarters constructed on the Teaford Farm and the rolling hills to the north of Sugar Loaf (elevation, 2,000 feet), just to the southwest of Swoope’s Depot, in Augusta County.

[...] looks cold Posted on December 24, 2008 by cenantua I just added another photo over at Shenandoah’s Civil War. Since it is a winter scene, I figured that I would throw in [...]
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