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Pennsylvania honored its soldiers buried in this cemetery, including known and unknown dead, with the hope that their sacrifice would inspire the people and promote civic virtue, love of liberty, peace, prosperity, and happiness in all the states. It memorialized Pennsylvania soldiers interred here and identified the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as having erected this tribute in 1910 under authority of an act of assembly approved May 13, 1909. It also recorded battles, engagements, and skirmishes near Culpeper, Virginia, in which Pennsylvania troops took part from August 1862 through November 1863, including actions at Slaughters House, Cedar Mountain, Brandy Station, Rappahannock Station, Kelly's Ford, Beverly Ford, Freeman's Ford, Hazel Run, White Sulphur Springs, Corbin's Cross-Roads near Amissville, Raccoon Ford, Rapidan Station, Stevensburg, Muddy Run, Welford's Ford, Oak Shade, Culpeper Court House, Morton's Ford, and Jeffersonton.
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Culpeper, Virginia · United States
