Emory, Virginia, is a quaint village located in the Highlands of Southwest Virginia, surrounded by the Appalachian Mountains. Just half a mile off Interstate 81 (Exit 26), the community lies adjacent to Emory & Henry College, a private, liberal arts college. The beautiful campus of Emory & Henry is a designated National Historic Site. Its unique character spills into the streets of Emory, which boasts its own landmarks, history and legends.

The four prominent buildings in the center of Emory are Addison's restaurant, The Emory Mercantile and Deli, The Emory Depot, which houses The 1912 Gallery, and the U.S. Post Office. Surrounding "downtown," you will find quiet, tree-lined streets and many older homes, some dating back to the mid 1800s. Many E&H faculty and staff members and students make their home here in Emory.

A sculpture stands at the center of Emory near the Train Depot, honoring the Navy soldiers who attended Emory & Henry during World War II. The statue was a gift of the late Don Tendick, a beloved benefactor of the college and one of those Navy students.

At any given time in this quiet hamlet, you may find neighbors greeting each other in their front yards, comparing the success of their summer gardens or rocking on a breezy porch perhaps retelling the legend of the lantern or discussing current politics.

The community of Emory didn’t exist except as a part of Emory & Henry College until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the college began selling tracts of land from the many surrounding acres it owned. The community became a criss-cross of streets named after trees (Birch, Maple) and famous universities (Oxford, Cambridge), and residents of the surrounding county and towns moved into the village. The first railroad was built in 1856 which also helped open the community and marked a boundary between Emory and the college. While the village grew for many years, Emory’s “building boom” took place in 1912.

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29th Infantry Regiment was authorized in November, 1861, and was to contain seven companies under Colonel A.C. Moore and three companies at Pound Gap. However, this organization never took place. Moore's five companies from Abingdon and companies raised in the spring of 1862 evidently made up the nine-company regiment. It was assigned to the Valley District, Department of Northern Virginia, then moved to Kentucky where it was engaged at Middle Creek. Later it saw action in Western Virginia and for a time served in North Carolina under General French. In March, 1863, it totalled 732 men. Attached to General Corse's Brigade the unit participated in Longstreet's Suffolk Expedition and during the Gettysburg Campaign was on detached duty in Tennessee and North Carolina. In the spring of 1864 it returned to Virginia and took its place in the Petersburg trenches north and south of the James River and ended the war at Appomattox. Many were lost at Sayler's Creek, and only 1 officer and 27 men surrendered on April 9, 1865. The field officers were Colonels James Giles and Alfred C. Moore; Lieutenant Colonels Alexander Haynes, William Leigh, and Edwin R. Smith; and Majors Ebenezer Bruster, William R.B. Horne, and Isaac White.

Co E = Capt Alexander Haynes' co; enlisted August 6, 1861, for one year; Musstered September 6, 1861; reorganized May 13, 1862