The plantation served as General Sheridan's command post at one time.

Belle Grove Plantation (Middletown, Virginia)

Belle Grove Plantation is a late-18th-century plantation and estate in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, USA. It is situated in Frederick County, about a mile southwest of Middletown.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle Grove Plantation (Middletown, Virginia)
• Foote, S., 1958, The Civil War, A narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville: First Vintage Books, New York, 936p.