| Virginia (Fairfax County), Fairfax — B 29 — Maryland (Antietam / Sharpsburg) Campaign |
| | Following the Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly) on 1 Sept. 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee pondered his options and strategy. Encouraged by Confederate victories and Federal disorganization, Lee acted quickly to continue the offensive. On 3 Sept., Lee's Army of Northern Virginia marched north towards Leesburg, from where it could cross into Maryland, flank the Washington fortifications, and draw the Union army out of Virginia. The troops of Maj. Gens. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and James Longstreet . . . — Map (db m111) HM |
| Virginia (Fairfax County), Reston — T-37 — Sharpsburg (Antietam) Campaign |
| | Here Lee entered this road from Ox Hill, September 3, 1862, and turned West toward Leesburg. Crossing the Potomac at White's Ford, the army entered Maryland, September 5-6, 1862. — Map (db m1098) HM |
| Virginia (Loudoun County), Leesburg — Leesburg — From Paradise to Peril — Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns |
| | “Leesburg! Paradise of the youthful warrior! Land of excellent edibles and beautiful maidens!” — so wrote a Confederate artilleryman in late 1861. A year later, a northern correspondent found Leesburg a weary town full of battle-scarred buildings and wary inhabitants.
A prosperous Southern town of about 2000 at the outbreak of the Civil War, Leesburg was strategically located on the border between the Union and Confederacy. By war’s end, the town had endured bombardment, . . . — Map (db m1544) HM |
| Virginia (Loudoun County), Leesburg — 1862 Antietam Campaign — Lee Invades Maryland |
| | Fresh from the victory at the Second Battle of Manassas
General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 1-6, 1862,
to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George B.
McClellan’s Army of the Potomac pursued Lee, who had detached Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s
force to capture the Union garrison at Harper's Ferry.
After the Federals pushed the remaining Confederates
out of the South . . . — Map (db m1110) HM |
| Virginia (Loudoun County), Leesburg — 1862 Antietam Campaign — Lee Invades Maryland |
| | Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4–6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac pursued Lee, who had detached Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s force to capture the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry. After the Federals pushed the remaining Confederates out of the South . . . — Map (db m1220) HM |
| Virginia (Loudoun County), Leesburg — Mile Hill — Cavalry Clash |
| | On September 1, 1862, Col. Thomas Munford, commander of the Confederate 2nd Virginia Cavalry (163 men), was ordered to Leesburg to destroy a body of Union Cavalry—the locally raised Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers—who were harassing southern sympathizers in the vicinity.
On September 2, 1862, 35 men of the Loudoun Rangers and 125 troopers of Cole’s Maryland Cavalry occupied Leesburg, posting pickets on all roads into town. Arriving undetected, Munford ascertained that the . . . — Map (db m1219) HM |
| Virginia (Loudoun County), Leesburg — F-6 — Sharpsburg (Antietam) Campaign |
| | Near here Stonewall Jackson bivouaced on the march into Maryland, September 4, 1862. — Map (db m986) HM |
| Virginia (Loudoun County), Leesburg — F 2 — Potomac Crossings |
| | Here Lee turned east to the Potomac, crossing at White's Ford, September 6, 1862, in his invasion of Maryland. Jubal A. Early, returning from his Washington raid, crossed the river at White’s Ford, July 14, 1864. — Map (db m1609) HM |
| Maryland (Montgomery County), Dickerson — 1862 Antietam Campaign — Lee Invades Maryland |
| | Fresh from the victory at the Second Battle of Manassas
General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 1-6, 1862,
to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George B.
McClellan’s Army of the Potomac pursued Lee, who had detached Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s
force to capture the Union garrison at Harper's Ferry.
After the Federals pushed the remaining Confederates
out of the South . . . — Map (db m809) HM |
| Maryland (Montgomery County), Dickerson — White’s Ferry — Invasion or Liberation. — Antietam Campaign 1862 |
| | The serenity of the Maryland countryside was
shattered on September 4-6, 1862, as 35,000 Confederate soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia
waded across the Potomac River. Gen. Robert E. Lee, hoping to rally support in the divided
state, sent the bulk of his army across at White’s Ford two miles north of here. The military operations would change the lives of the fighting men and affect local residents and businesses.
The largely indifferent reaction to the Confederates as they . . . — Map (db m807) HM |
| Maryland (Montgomery County), Dawsonville — White’s Ferry |
| | → 12 Miles →
And old ferry and ford across the Potomac River often used during the war between the states by Confederate forces under Generals Robert E. Lee, Jubal Early, J.E.B. Stuart and others during campaigns and raids in Maryland. — Map (db m1680) HM |
| Maryland (Montgomery County), Dickerson — White’s Ford — Crossing the Potomac — Antietam Campaign 1862 |
| | A wing of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Gen. James Longstreet, as well as part of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry, crossed into Maryland just south of here on September 5-6, 1862. Other parts of the 40,000-man force, supported by 246 cannons, crossed elsewhere.
As the Confederates forded the Potomac River, regimental bands played “Maryland, My Maryland,” a poem written by James Ryder Randall after the Baltimore Riot of April 1861, and put to music by . . . — Map (db m812) HM |
| Maryland (Montgomery County), Martinsburg — White’s Ford |
| | About 2 miles northwest was White’s Ford. This Potomac crossing was used by Gen. R. E. Lee entering Maryland in September, 1862, and Generals J.E.B. Stuart and Jubal A. Early returning to Virginia in 1862 and 1864, respectively. — Map (db m811) HM |
| Maryland (Montgomery County), Dickerson — Monocacy Aqueduct — Too Tough To Crack — Antietam Campaign 1862 |
| | Confederate Gen. D. H. Hill’s division crossed the Potomac at Point of Rocks on September 4, 1862, and marched south to clear Union forces from the area. His men breached and drained the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at several places, burned canal boats, and damaged the Spinks Ferry Lock (Lock 27) south of here. They also breached the Little Monocacy Culvert but did not have enough tools or spare gunpowder to damage the vital Monocacy Aqueduct.
On September 9, Confederate Gen. John G. Walker’s . . . — Map (db m65210) HM |
| Maryland (Frederick County), Dickerson — 1862 Antietam Campaign — Lee Invades Maryland |
| | Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4–6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac pursued Lee, who had detached Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s force to capture the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry. After the Federals pushed the remaining Confederates out of the South . . . — Map (db m4028) HM |
| Maryland (Frederick County), Adamstown — Carrollton Manor — Green Corn March — Antietam Campaign 1862 |
| | On Saturday, September 6, 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia was spread along the entire length of Buckeystown Turnpike all the way to Frederick. The soldiers camped in the fields on either side of the road on the evenings of September 5-6, and by the next day most of the army was camped south of Frederick. On their way the Confederates stripped the nearby fields of green corn. Too much of this corn put many of the soldiers out of commission for several days with . . . — Map (db m1738) HM |
| Maryland (Frederick County), Buckeystown — Buckeystown Park — Soldiers’ Shortcake — Antietam Campaign 1862 |
| | On the south end of this park, the road from Urbana to Buckeystown crossed the Monocacy River over a stone bridge. Some of the Confederate troops camped here on September 6, 1862, while some crossed the bridge to bivouac on a knoll overlooking the river on the south side of the road on William Graff’s farm. On September 13, Union Gen. William B. Franklin’s VI Corps passed by here on the march from Urbana, and halted for an hour at the apple and peach orchards near the Dalaplaine (Michael’s) . . . — Map (db m1737) HM |
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