| Maryland (Frederick County), Bolivar — Civil War Hospital Site — Henry Shoemaker House |
| | Civil War Hospital Site
The Henry Shoemaker House was used as a hospital site during the Maryland Campaign 1862.
Private Property courtesy of S.H.A.F — Map (db m4953) HM |
| Maryland (Frederick County), Frederick — Hospitals in Frederick — Caring for the Wounded |
| | In this building, soldiers who died in one of the many area hospitals following the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Moncacy were embalmed and prepared for interment at nearby Mount Olivet Cemetery or for shipment home. James Whitehall, the owner of the building, was both a furniture maker and undertaker, as were many furniture makers then. Dr. Richard Burr, a contractor with the U.S. Army, embalmed the bodies of officers and soldiers in this building. He gave public . . . — Map (db m2806) HM |
| Maryland (Washington County), Funkstown — Civil War Hospital Site — Angela Kirkham Davis House |
| | Civil War Hospital Site Angela Kirkham Davis House Was used as a hospital during The Maryland Campaign 1862 Private Property courtesy of S.H.A.F. — Map (db m2008) HM |
| Maryland (Washington County), Brownsville — St. Luke’s Episcopal Church — Brownsville, Maryland — Founded 1837 |
| | During the civil war, St. Luke’s served as headquarters for General Lafayette McLaws, who’s troops from the Army of Northern Virginia were bivouacked around Brownsville, September 11, 1862. It served as a hospital for his wounded following the Battle of Antietam. Union forces later burned the interior of the church, leaving it a shell until its reconstruction in 1869. — Map (db m2072) HM |
| Maryland (Frederick County), Burkittsville — Burkittsville — Houses of Worship Become Houses of Misery — Antietam Campaign 1862 |
| | Union surgeons turned Burkittsville, a quiet rural village of some 200 people, into a hospital complex after the September 14, 1862, Battle of Crampton’s Gap. The building in front of you, the German Reformed Church, was Hospital D. Twenty-year-old Henrietta Biser gasped when she saw the church pews strewn in the front yard and “a pile of amputated limbs lying just inside the door of the church. Blood was running...over the floor...and things were torn to pieces.” Henry M. Wiener . . . — Map (db m1864) HM |
| Maryland (Washington County), Keedysville — Pry Mill |
| | The 20.25 acre property on Little Antietam Creek was bequeathed to Samuel Merritt Hitt by Robert Smith on October 28, 1818. A two-story, two-section grist and sawmill was constructed about 1820 by Hitt, who diverted the established road so traffic would pass his mill. Brothers Samuel and Philip Pry purchased the mill in 1847. Samuel, the sole proprietor in 1850, rebuilt the structure in its present form. Jonathan Letterman selected the mill as one of seven Union hospital sites, and the building . . . — Map (db m3202) HM |
| Maryland (Washington County), Keedysville — Civil War Hospital Site — Samuel Pry Mill |
| | Civil War Hospital Site Samuel Pry Mill Was used as a hospital during The Maryland Campaign 1862 Private Property courtesy of S.H.A.F. — Map (db m3203) HM |
| Maryland (Washington County), Keedysville — Keedysville — Headquarters and Hospital Town — Antietam Campaign 1862 |
| | After the Battle of South Mountain ended around nightfall on September 14, 1862, many Confederates marched by here. The next day, Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac arrived, and McClellan established his headquarters here in the German Reformed Church. The army bivouacked in and around Keedysville before it attacked Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia near Sharpsburg on September 17. After the battle, the bloodiest day in American history, Keedysville became one vast . . . — Map (db m1640) HM |
| Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — Civil War Hospital Site — Hoffman Farm |
| | Civil War Hospital Site Hoffman Farm Was used as a hospital during The Maryland Campaign 1862 Private Property courtesy of S.H.A.F. — Map (db m7191) HM |
| West Virginia (Jefferson County), Shepherdstown — Civil War Hospital Site — R.D. Shepherds Town Hall |
| | Civil War Hospital Site R.D. Shepherds Town Hall was used as a hospital during the Maryland Campaign 1862
courtesy of S.H.A.F. — Map (db m1948) HM |
| West Virginia (Jefferson County), Shepherdstown — Civil War Hospital Site — Moulder Hall |
| | Civil War Hospital Site Moulder Hall was used as a hospital during the Maryland Campaign 1862. Private Property courtesy of S.H.A.F. — Map (db m1947) HM |
| West Virginia (Jefferson County), Shepherdstown — Shepherdstown — “The Whole Town was a Hospital” — Antietam Campaign 1862 |
| | In September 1862, after the Maryland Battles of South Mountain and Antietam, Shepherdstown became a scene of indescribable suffering. “The whole town was a hospital,” wrote resident Mary Bedinger Mitchell. “There was scarcely a building in town that could not with truth seek protection under that plea.” The wounded Confederates streaming into Shepherdstown after the South Mountain actions of September 14 became a flood totaling 2,000–3,000 by the 18th, the day . . . — Map (db m1939) HM |
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