Follow the Kernstown Battlefield walking trails for insights
into the events of the First and Second Battles of Kernstown ... browse the battlefield Visitor Center to learn details of the history ... see the 1854 Pritchard House where the family of Samuel and Helen Pritchard huddled in the cellar waiting for quiet to return to their farm. This and more await visitors to this pristine
388-acre Civil War battlefield park.
The Kernstown Battlefield Association owns and operates the Kernstown Battlefield on the Pritchard-Grim Farm located in Winchester, Virginia.
The KBA is a non-profit 501(c)3 all volunteer corporation whose mission is to protect and interpret this Civil War battlefield for the benefit of future generations.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE KBA...
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Above: First Battle of Kernstown
Sunday, 23 March 1862
From the battlefield map by Jedediah Hotchkiss,
Topographical Engineer for Gen. Stonewall Jackson
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FIRST BATTLE OF KERNSTOWN
March 23, 1862, Stonewall Jackson's 3,000-strong Confederate army marched into the artillery fire of Nathan Kimball's 8,000-strong Union force. When darkness ended the battle, casualties totaled over 1300. Kernstown was the first battle fought in the Valley, and it launched the great campaign still studied today, Gen. Jackson's famous Valley Campaign of 1862. LEARN MORE...
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SECOND BATTLE OF KERNSTOWN
July 24, 1864, 28,000 combatants once again swarmed over the fields and hills of the Pritchard farm in an agonizing battle ending in a decisive Confederate victory which was to be their last in the Valley. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederates inflicted 1185 casualties on Gen. George Crook's Union Army. Nine months after Early's victory at Kernstown the war ended at Appomatox. LEARN MORE...
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Breaking News!! Revised Charter Documents available HERE for your review!!
To see the revised Bylaws, Board Duties & Responsibilities, and Charter click Here:
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Kernstown Battlefield
610 Battle Park Drive
Winchester, Virginia 22602
(Battle Park Drive is off Valley Avenue
next to Creekside Station in Kernstown.)
GPS Coordinates:
39º 8´ 38.14˝ North, 78º 1´ 33.20˝ West
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Above: The 1854 Pritchard House on the Kernstown Battlefield where Samuel and Helen Pritchard and their children huddled in their cellar during both battles fought on their farm.
Kernstown Battlefield Association
2017 Annual Meeting
The Kernstown Battlefield
Association invites all members to its annual meeting to be held Saturday,
October 21, 2017, from 12pm to 4pm, at the battlefield.
A light lunch and beverages
will be served from noon to 1pm. The program will include Delegate Randy Minchew as guest speaker,
an update on Association projects, a membership vote on changes to our Bylaws
and Articles of Incorporation and voting for directors: nominations are Steve Cantu, Steve Chesley, Sue Golden, Fred Rickard, and Larry Turner.
The Pritchard House, visitor
center, gift shop, and battlefield will be open normal hours, 10am until 4pm.
Docents will be available to give tours.
A special tour of the new
Sandy Ridge property will be given at 1030 am. Please dress for walking!
See Mike Cannane's lecture on General Nathan Kimble linked HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIJtbgvKe_Y&t=13s
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