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George W. Summers and Newton Koontz of Company D, 7th Virginia Cavalry, were executed here on June 27, 1865, by order of Lt. Col. Huzzy of the 192d O.V.M.I. According to the monument’s inscription, they were arrested at their homes in Page Co., brought here, and shot without the privilege of any kind of trial. Friends erected the monument in 1893 under the supervision of Capt. T.J. Adams.
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