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Jefferson County was part of Virginia when The War started. The county provided ten companies to the Confederacy. In the museum, you will find many artifacts of The War and of the veterans that fought it.
Notable among the men from Jefferson County are: Lieutenant Colonel R. Preston Chew, Major Wells Hawks, Colonel Henry Kyd Douglas, Colonel Alexander Boetler, Colonel Lawson Botts, Colonel John Augustine Washington and General Edwin Gray Lee.
There are twenty-five markers in the county that mark significant military operations.
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