Scenes in Pleasant Valley

This is St. Luke's Episcopal Church, which was headquarters for General McLaws during the battle at Solomon's Gap, and it was also used as a Confederate field hospital.  A visitor in recent times came because he had a letter passed down from an ancestor who was a Confederate soldier.  The letter said that the soldier saw amputated limbs stacked as high as the window sill. 

This is the interior of the church.  This, with the pews removed, served as a hospital for the Confederates.  After Union troops drove the Confederates out of Pleasant Valley, they burned the church in reprisal.  When the church was rebuilt, a scorched beam over a window was removed.  It's kept in the adjacent community center.  Not long ago, the church was repainted.  The painters said that it looked like there had been a fire.  Yes, but it was 150 years ago, they were told.

The photograph to the left is the house on Elie Crampton's farm as it looks today.  In the foreground is the spring house and a chimney where the bake house used to be.