Ascension Episcopal Church

Two Confederate soldiers killed during “Corbit’s Charge” are buried in the cemetery of this church.

“Corbit’s Charge,” a clash between Union forces stationed in Westminster and Confederate forces advancing north from Montgomery County, left two Confederate soldiers dead, as well as eleven wounded. The dead of both sides were initially buried in the Westminster Cemetery on July 1^st, 1863. Pierre Gibson and John W. Murray, both lieutenants of the 4^th Virginia Cavalry, were later reinterred in the graveyard of the Ascension Episcopal Church (though Gibson’s remains were then moved to Virginia in 1867).