At Snickers Gap a major road (now Route 7) crosses the Blue Ridge in Virginia. In the picture we're on the old winding road up the hill from Bluemont. We were there tracing Jubal Early's retreat from Maryland in July 1864. He had managed to cause distress in Washington D.C. by attacking Fort Stevens, but had been forced to retreat. Also his army had failed to reach Point Lookout, where Confederate prisoner's were held.Our class has never been to either Fort Stevens or Point Lookout. They are far from the other sites that we visit chronologically for 1864. I've been to Point Lookout while on vacation; it's a beautiful peninsula on the Chesapeake. One of these days I should find my photos from that trip.
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