About Us

Cedar Mountain Battlefield Foundation is a community-based non-profit corporation dedicated to working cooperatively with landowners, local citizens, and the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation to protect, restore, maintain, manage, interpret, and promote public awareness of the Cedar Mountain Civil War Battlefield and vicinity in Culpeper County, Virginia.

At Cedar Mountain Thomas ā€œStonewallā€ Jackson led his troops into battle on August 9, 1862 against Nathaniel Banksā€™ corps of John Popeā€™s new Army of Virginia. Over 3,000 men were killed or wounded that afternoon and evening in the shadow of Cedar Mountain during the deadliest day in Culpeperā€™s history. Culpeperā€™s native son, Major General A. P. Hill, sealed the Confederate victory when his division reformed Jacksonā€™s crumbled line and led the charge that turned the tide of the battle. For Hill and the other Culpeper men engaged, this was a personal battle to liberate their homes, friends and family from the Union occupation.

With the support of local citizens and the American Battlefield Trust, the Cedar Mountain Battlefield Foundation is working to ensure that this battle and the valor displayed by both armies will never be forgotten.

Accomplishments to Date

We have compiled a significant record of accomplishment. Board members and friends of CMBF have been working closely with the American Battlefield Trust (ABT) to restore the historical landscape of ABTā€™s 152-acre Cedar Mountain Battlefield Park.

Since inception we have:

  • have become the official friends group to Culpeper Battlefields State Park

  • purchased two acres of land along Dove Hill Road

  • planted over 2,000 trees to reforest 6.5 acres of land that were forested in 1862

  • restored a portion of the old Orange-Culpeper Road (approximately 150 yards)

  • installed split-rail fence along the restored portion of the Orange-Culpeper Road

  • continued our wildlife habitat management and enhancement

  • placed "Civil War Trails" signs on Route 29 at the exit to Route 15 and at the battlefield

  • secured an American Battlefield Protection Program grant