On East Main Street at Lincoln Road, on the left when traveling north on East Main Street.
Built in 1854 as an Odd Fellows Hall and served as an "Opera House" and community center for nearly a century. Reported to have been used by Union troops during the Civil War.
Opera House printing company located here in 1976 by its owner, . . . — — Map (db m103704) HM
On West Main Street at Carroll Street, on the left when traveling north on West Main Street.
After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's smashing victory over Union Gen. John Pope at the Second Battle of Manassas, Lee decided to invade Maryland to reap the fall harvest, gain Confederate recruits, earn foreign recognition of the . . . — — Map (db m201697) HM
On East Main Street south of Manchester Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
The Trumbo-Chrest House
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m114397) HM
On North Center Street south of North Court Street, on the left when traveling south.
County seat of Carroll County, founded 1764 first called Winchester for its founder William Winchester (1710-1790), who was born in Westminster, England (now a part of Greater London) Westminster Academy incorporated 1839 (later absorbed into the . . . — — Map (db m75698) HM
On Liberty Street (Maryland Route 27) at West Main Street (Maryland Route 32), on the right when traveling north on Liberty Street.
During the Civil War, railroads for the first time attained strategic importance for transporting troops and equipment. On July 1, 1863, Gen. Herman Haupt, chief of U.S. Military Railroads, assumed control here of the Western Maryland Railroad to . . . — — Map (db m13828) HM
On Delaware Avenue (Maryland Route 7) 0.1 miles east of Creswell Ave., on the right when traveling east.
The home of John A. J. Creswell who nominated James Buchanan for President in 1856 and turned Republican in 1861. He was successively Assistant-Adjutant General of Maryland, member of the House of Representatives, Senator and Postmaster by . . . — — Map (db m145436) HM
On Blue Ball Road, 2 miles north of Maryland Route 279, on the right when traveling north.
Boyhood home of William Whann Mackall. Appointed to the U. S. Military Academy in 1834. Resigned from the U. S. Army, joined the Confederacy and served on the staffs of Generals Albert Sydney Johnston, Braxton Bragg and Joseph E. Johnston. General . . . — — Map (db m145439) HM
On Broad Street (Maryland Route 7) at Roundhouse Drive, on the right when traveling west on Broad Street.
On April 18-19, 1861, a week after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Confederate sympathizers attacked U.S. Army forces en route to Washington in Baltimore, 35 miles southwest of here. On the second day shots were fired and soldiers . . . — — Map (db m145865) HM
On Marion Tapp Parkway, on the left when traveling south.
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Soon after the Civil War erupted in April 1861, Perryville became an important Union staging area. Adjacent to Fort Dare here, a riverside plantation was confiscated from Confederate sympathizers and immediately transformed . . . — — Map (db m145891) HM
On Main Street (Maryland Route 222) 0.1 miles south of Center Street (Maryland Route 276), on the right when traveling north.
Built 1813, probably by Daniel Megredy. Lafayette was entertained here in 1824. Later owned by Cornelius Smith (1792–1858), farmer and philanthropist who financed road construction to create jobs for the unemployed and aided public education . . . — — Map (db m127920) HM
On Main Street (Maryland Route 222) at Center Street (Maryland Route 276), on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
Born at this house at Creswell’s Ferry, now Port Deposit, in 1828, John Creswell graduated from Dickinson College and became a lawyer. He was elected to the General Assembly in 1861, became Adjutant General in 1862, was elected to Congress that same . . . — — Map (db m145442) HM
On Main Street (Maryland Route 222) 0.1 miles south of Center Street (Maryland Route 276), on the left when traveling north.
On August 30, 1861 Battery B of the Union Army under the command of Capt. Alonzo Snow was organized at Port Deposit, composed mainly of men from this town and vicinity. The Battery rendered important service to the Federal forces in the Civil War, . . . — — Map (db m145871) HM
On South Main Street (Maryland Route 222) south of High Street (Route 276), on the left when traveling north.
In the summer of 1861, in prosperous Port Deposit, men volunteered for an artillery battery to fight for their beloved Union. Capt. Alonzo Snow led the approximately 155-man unit. Organized in September, Snow's Battery left the Eastern Shore in May . . . — — Map (db m145880) HM
On Conowingo Road (U.S. 1) east of Arbor Lane, on the right when traveling west.
General Lafayette and his army camped around this tree April 12, 1781. A Civil War cavalry unit later occupied the site. The oak, over 500 years old, was owned by the Thomas Richards family for over a century. A huge limb fell August, 1964, . . . — — Map (db m145616) HM
On Bel Alton Newtown Road at Fairground Road, on the left when traveling east on Bel Alton Newtown Road.
John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice Harold hid in a thick woods on Samuel Cox's farm. (One mile north →) for several days before escaping to Virginia after Lincoln's assassination April 14, 1865. — — Map (db m129023) HM
On Bel Alton Newton Road at Wills Road, on the right when traveling north on Bel Alton Newton Road.
John Wilkes Booth and David Herold remained hidden from April 16 to 21, 1865 in a nearby pine thicket, while Union troops searched for them. Thomas A. Jones brought them food and the newspapers. — — Map (db m39524) HM
On Bel Alton Newtown Road at Wills Road, on the right when traveling north on Bel Alton Newtown Road.
After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice, David A. Herold, fled Washington for Southern Maryland, a hotbed of Confederate sympathizers. After leaving the home of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd near . . . — — Map (db m39528) HM
On Bel Alton Newtown Road, on the left when traveling east.
Mid-18th century farm house (with alterations after 1800) was home of Col. Samuel Cox. This southern sympathizer fed and sheltered fugitives John Wilkes Booth and David E. Herold before dawn on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865 following Booth's . . . — — Map (db m4458) HM
Near Bel Alton Newtown Road, 0.1 miles east of Rich Hill Farm Road, on the right when traveling west.
After leaving Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's house on April 15, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, and his accomplice David E. Herold avoided Zekiah Swamp and made a wide arc around the village of Bryantown. Unsure of their . . . — — Map (db m129036) HM
Near Rich Hill Farm Road, 0.1 miles north of Bel Alton Newtown Rd. Reported permanently removed.
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After leaving Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's house on April 15, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, and his accomplice David E. Herold avoided Zekiah Swamp and made a wide arc around the village of . . . — — Map (db m129045) HM
Near Rich Hill Farm Road, 0.1 miles Bel Alton Newtown Rd.
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1666
Hugh Thomas receives a 600 acre patent to "Rich Hill." )
1666—1714
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1714—1807
Brown Family Era )
(Image of Dr. Gustavus Brown) )
Scottish immigrant Dr. Gustavus Brown builds the house.
1729 . . . — — Map (db m129049) HM
On Prince Frederick Road (Maryland Route 231) at Mill Creek Road/Bendict Avenue cut off, on the right when traveling east on Prince Frederick Road.
Camp Stanton was established in this area, October, 1863, for the recruiting and training of the Seventh, Ninth, Nineteenth and Thirtieth United States Colored Infantry. — — Map (db m4112) HM
Near Wilmott Drive, on the left when traveling south. Reported missing.
Nearby stood Camp Stanton, a Civil War-era recruiting and training post for African American Union soldiers. Named for Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the camp was established in August 1863. Although black soldiers had served in the nation’s armed . . . — — Map (db m195735) HM
On Serenity Farm Road at Prince Frederick Road (Maryland Route 231), on the right when traveling north on Serenity Farm Road.
Imagine the now-quiet fields south of Rt. 231 full of activity that signified a revolutionary shift in American society. Shouted commands and gunfire filled the air as Black men, some formerly enslaved, learned to march and fire their weapons as . . . — — Map (db m214802) HM
On Olivers Shop Road (Maryland Route 232) 1.2 miles south of Leonardtown Road (Maryland Route 5).
On November 13, 1864, here at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was introduced to John
Wilkes Booth, the future assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. Booth had come to Charles County to
contact the Confederate underground here and . . . — — Map (db m924) HM
On Trotter Road (State Highway 5), on the left when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
This building is the Bryantown Tavern, constructed about 1815. On April 15, 1865, the morning after President Lincoln’s assassination, Lt. David D. Dana made it his headquarters while pursuing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, with a detachment of . . . — — Map (db m4500) HM
This building is the Bryantown Tavern, constructed about 1815. On April 15, 1865, the morning after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Lt. David D. Dana made it his headquarters while pursuing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, with a . . . — — Map (db m181678) HM
On Riverside Road (Maryland Route 224) at Budd's Ferry Place, on the left when traveling north on Riverside Road.
Site of a Union Battery, November, 1861 to March 1862. The movements of Confederate troops across the Potomac River in Virginia were observed from a balloon above this point. — — Map (db m19569) HM
Maintained headquarters here at Chicamuxen Methodist Church from October, 1861, to March, 1862, when over 12,000 Union troops were camped along the Potomac River in Charles County. — — Map (db m14774) HM
On Port Tobacco Road (Maryland Route 6) 0.5 miles north of Grayton Lane, on the right when traveling north.
Birthplace of Admiral Raphael Semmes C.S.N. Appointed a midshipman U.S.N., 1826. He served in the Mexican War with distinction. Joining the Confederate Navy, 1861. He commanded the noted Confederate raider the "Alabama." — — Map (db m129255) HM
On Popes Creek Road, 1 mile south of Crain Highway (U.S. 301), on the right when traveling south.
Home of Confederate Mail Agent, Thomas A. Jones, who helped to shelter, and aided the escape of John Wilkes Booth and David Herold in their flight, April 16th to 21st 1865. — — Map (db m129119) HM
On this location Maj. R. G. Watson and his daughter Mary, both Confederate agents, lived and carried on a direct mail and slave route between the North and the South during the entire Civil War. Because of the unobstructed view from these cliffs, . . . — — Map (db m5938) HM
On Crain Highway (U.S. 301) near Cliffton Road, on the right when traveling south.
The home of Major Roderick G. Watson is two miles north of this marker. At the start of the Civil War many persons crossed the Potomac River to Virginia in this area. From 1862 to the end of the war, Thomas A. Jones served as a Confederate agent . . . — — Map (db m3827) HM
On Popes Creek Road, 3 miles south of Crain Highway (U.S. 301), on the left when traveling south.
After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice, David A. Herold, fled Washington for Southern Maryland, a hotbed of Confederate sympathizers. Concealed for several days in a pine thicket two . . . — — Map (db m128807) HM
On Popes Creek Road, 1.8 miles south of Crain Highway (U.S. 301).
John Wilkes Booth and David Herold set out from here for the Virginia shore during the night of April 21, 1865, in a boat supplied by Thomas A. Jones. — — Map (db m128809) HM
Near Crain Highway (U.S. 301) 0.7 miles south of Rock Point Road (Maryland Route 257). Reported permanently removed.
Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylander’s hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and . . . — — Map (db m24540) HM
Near Crain Highway (U.S. 301) south of Venus Road, on the right when traveling north.
Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylanders' hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and . . . — — Map (db m186732) HM
On Blossom Point Road at Port Tobacco Road (Maryland Route 6), on the right when traveling east on Blossom Point Road.
Birthplace of Acting Brigadier General Joseph Lancaster Brent, C.S.A. (1826-1909). He served in the Trans-Mississippi Department during the Civil War and took part in the siege of Vicksburg. — — Map (db m7216) HM
Near Chapel Point Road, on the right when traveling east.
Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylander’s hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and families . . . — — Map (db m1104) HM
In this center of Confederate activity, at the Brawner Hotel, Detective Captain William Williams unsuccessfully offered Thomas Jones $100,000 reward for information that would lead to the capture of John Wilkes Booth. — — Map (db m128825) HM
Near Commerce Street west of Chapel Point Road when traveling west.
Port Tobacco was the home and place of business of George Atzerodt. Although he failed to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson, he was convicted and executed for his role in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
Part . . . — — Map (db m128954) HM
On Rosehill Road at Rose Hill Manor Place, on the right when traveling south on Rosehill Road.
Home of Miss Olivia Floyd, Confederate agent, and her brother Robert Semmes Floyd, C.S.A. killed in action. Both are buried in St. Ignatius Church Yard two miles south. — — Map (db m39523) HM
On Chicamuxen Road (Maryland Route 224) at Stump Neck Road, on the right when traveling south on Chicamuxen Road.
A landing on Mattawoman Creek used from December, 1861 to March, 1862 to unload supplies for a brigade of New Jersey troops encamped nearby. — — Map (db m6082) HM
On Dr. Samuel Mudd Road (Maryland Route 232) near Poplar Hill Road (Maryland Route 382).
This house was the home of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd and his wife, Sarah Frances Dyer. Early on the morning of April 15, 1865, John Wilkes Booth arrived here with a companion, David E. Herold, and asked Mudd to set Booth’s broken leg. Afterward, as . . . — — Map (db m921) HM
On Dr. Samuel Mudd Road (Maryland Route 232) south of Poplar Hill Road (Maryland Route 382).
Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylanders’ hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and families . . . — — Map (db m922) HM
On Captain Dement Drive at Bensville Road (Maryland Highway 229) when traveling west on Captain Dement Drive.
Home of Captain William Fendlay Dement. 1st Maryland Artillery, C.S.A. He served with distinction at Seven Pines, Second Manassas, Cedar Run, Harper's Ferry, Gettysburg, Appomattox, and Sharpsburg. Buried at Pomfret. — — Map (db m39521) HM
On Leonardtown Road (Maryland Route 5) near Mattawoman - Beantown Road (Maryland Route 5).
Dr. Mudd set the broken leg of Wilkes Booth who escaped from Washington after Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865. Dr. Mudd was tried and imprisoned on Dry Tortugas Island. — — Map (db m8932) HM
On Washington Street (Maryland Route 343) at Ocean Gateway (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling west on Washington Street.
A year after her escape, Harriet made it her mission to, with the help of God, free her family from slavery. In December 1850, she secretly planned her first rescue.
Harriet Tubman's niece, Kessiah Bowley, and her two children were to be . . . — — Map (db m204997) HM
On Washington Street (Maryland Route 343) at Ocean Gateway (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling west on Washington Street. Reported permanently removed.
The Slavery Conflict Deepens
During the 1850's the deep-rooted conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery Americans intensified. The 'abolitionists' were united around the common long-run goal of abolishing slavery. But they differed . . . — — Map (db m109916) HM
On Gay Street at Spring Street, on the left when traveling east on Gay Street. Reported permanently removed.
During the Civil War, U.S. Col. James Wallace, commander of the 1st Regiment, Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers, used this building as his headquarters. The regiment which camped east of here, drew most of its members directly from the Eastern . . . — — Map (db m113141) HM
On Gay Street at Spring Street, on the right when traveling west on Gay Street.
During the Civil War, Union Co. James Wallace (1818-1887), 1st Regiment, Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers, used this building as his headquarters. The unit, which camped east of here, enlisted most of its members from the Eastern Shore. It . . . — — Map (db m205006) HM
On Rose Hill Place at Radiance Drive, on the right when traveling north on Rose Hill Place. Reported permanently removed.
Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.
In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here . . . — — Map (db m8331) HM
On Rosehill Place, 0.1 miles east of Dorchester Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
Welcome to Dorchester County! When the Civil War intruded into quiet communities, residents here, as elsewhere on the Eastern Shore, faced difficult choices.
Before the war, enslaved African Americans here began escaping bondage via the . . . — — Map (db m190251) HM
On Academy Street at Cemetery Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Academy Street.
In this cemetery is the grave of Thomas Holliday Hicks, Governor of Maryland 1858-1862 and United States Senator from Maryland 1862-1865. At the beginning of the Civil War during his tenure as governor, the position of Maryland was more important . . . — — Map (db m3971) HM
Near Cemetery Avenue east of Academy Street, on the right when traveling east.
This monument, erected by the state in 1868, honors Thomas Holliday Hicks, a native and life resident of Dorchester County. Late in 1860, and early 1861 as Maryland’s first Civil War governor, he opposed the doctrines of secession and coercion. In . . . — — Map (db m113146) HM
On Greenbrier Road, 1 mile west of Bestpitch Ferry Road, on the left when traveling west.
The "Moses of her People", Harriett Tubman of the Bucktown District found freedom for herself and some three hundred other slaves whom she led north. In the Civil War she served the Union army as a nurse, scout and spy. — — Map (db m3956) HM
On Main Street (Maryland Route 16) at Academy Street (Maryland Route 14), on the left when traveling north on Main Street.
Originally “Crossroads,” later “New Market.” Post for trading with Indians erected 1767. In Revolution, “New Market Blues,” volunteer militiamen, were organized in this supply center for Continental army. South on . . . — — Map (db m3979) HM
On Taylors Island Road (Maryland Route 16) at Old Trinity Church Road, on the right when traveling east on Taylors Island Road. Reported permanently removed.
Anna Ella Carroll was born on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1815. Often called an unofficial member of President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, she was a Unionist author and newspaper reporter who had traveled extensively throughout the South and Midwest . . . — — Map (db m45304) HM
Near Taylors Island Road, 0.4 miles north of Taylors Island Road (Maryland Route 16), on the right when traveling west.
Anna Ella Carroll, sometimes called an unofficial member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, is buried in the Old Trinity Church graveyard. Carroll, born on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1815, remains an enigma, but there is no question that she . . . — — Map (db m205116) HM
On Buckeystown Pike (Maryland Route 85), on the right when traveling north.
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 . . . — — Map (db m152272) HM
On Smoketown Road at Dunker Church Road, on the right when traveling west on Smoketown Road.
C.S.A. Jackson's Command Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, Commanding. (September 15-16, 1862.) Gen. Jackson, with Ewell's and Jackson's Divisions, left Harpers Ferry late in the afternoon of September 15th, reached Sharpsburg on the morning of the . . . — — Map (db m185586) HM
Near Urbana Pike (Maryland Route 355) 0.5 miles south of New Technology Way, on the right when traveling north.
In June 1864, Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant was intent on destroying Confederate General Robert E. Lee's army at Petersburg, Virginia. Lee saw an opportunity to capture undefended Washington, D.C. He sent Lieutenant General Jubal A. . . . — — Map (db m213594) HM
Near Urbana Pike (Maryland Route 355) 1.4 miles south of New Technology Way, on the right when traveling north.
Roads are a record of those who have gone before.
—Rebecca Solnit
Monocacy has always served as an important crossroads. Here, you'll travel along the same routes used by Civil War soldiers and . . . — — Map (db m213596) HM
On Railroad Square, on the right when traveling east.
Union troops pursuing the Confederate army to Virginia after the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 crossed the Potomac River here. Called Berlin at the time of the Civil War, this town truly experienced the challenges of life on the border. Both . . . — — Map (db m1863) HM
Near North Delaware Avenue at Brunswick Street, on the right when traveling north.
This is the earliest known cemetery in the city of Brunswick. Historical records indicate burials here from 1799 or earlier. The oldest standing gravestone is marked "M.C. 1810." Most of the recorded burials took place between 1890 and 1910. The . . . — — Map (db m173616) HM
On Michael's Mill Road (Maryland Route 880) at Fingerboard Road (Maryland Route 80), on the right on Michael's Mill Road.
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 . . . — — Map (db m1737) HM
On Gapland Road, on the right when traveling south.
Just before the Confederate line along Mountain Church Road gave way, Brigadier General Howell Cobb arrived in Crampton’s Gap with his Georgia and North Carolina troops. After meeting with Colonel Thomas Munford, who had been directing the battle, . . . — — Map (db m2060) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the right when traveling west on Gapland Road.
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 . . . — — Map (db m1958) HM
On Gapland Raod at Arnoldstown Road, on the left when traveling west on Gapland Raod.
Colonel Joseph J. Bartlett, the Commander of the Second Brigade of Franklin’s First Division, found himself in a curious position. As a brigade commander, Bartlett chose both the field across which Franklin’s Corps would attack and the formation . . . — — Map (db m2151) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the right when traveling west on Gapland Road.
The Battle of South Mountain struck Crampton’s Gap late in the afternoon of September 14, 1862, when Union Gen. William B. Franklin finally ordered an attack against Confederate Gen. Lafayette McLaws’s force here. As the Confederate defensive line . . . — — Map (db m1909) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the left when traveling west on Gapland Road.
General Robert E. Lee directed Major General Lafayette McLaws to close in on the Federal garrison at Harper’s Ferry via Elk Ridge, west of South Mountain. McLaws’ route from Frederick took him through Middletown, where he turned southwest on the . . . — — Map (db m153126) HM
On Gapland Raod at Arnoldstown Road, on the left when traveling west on Gapland Raod.
The treatment of soldiers killed in action depended on which army held the battlefield after the guns fell silent. At South Mountain a few men from each Union regiment were assigned to burial details. To prevent the spread of disease, they lined up . . . — — Map (db m2145) HM
On East Main Street at Potomac Street (Maryland Route 17), on the right on East Main Street.
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. . . . — — Map (db m190155) HM
On Gapland Road, on the right when traveling south.
The first settlers in this area cleared their farm land and raised their families along two Indian trails that crossed here. Joshua Harley, one of these pioneers and a veteran of the American Revolution, started the settlement’s first dry goods . . . — — Map (db m190153) HM
On Gapland Road, on the right when traveling south.
Captain R. Preston Chew organized Chew’s Ashby Artillery, the first “horse artillery” in the Confederate army, in November 1861. He named it for Colonel Turner Ashby. Chew’s battery boasted a 3 in ordinance rifle, a 12-pounder smoothbore . . . — — Map (db m168571) HM
On Gapland Road at Townsend Road, on the right when traveling west on Gapland Road.
Cobb’s Brigade McLaw’s Division C.S.A. ——•••—— At 1 P.M. on September 14, 1862, Cobb’s Brigade under Gen. Howell Cobb of Athens, GA. marched from Sandy Hook to Brownsville at the west foot of . . . — — Map (db m1964) HM
Near Arnoldtown Road at Gapland Road, on the left when traveling south.
"It was here that so many of the Legion were killed and taken prisoners. When once over the fence there was no escape. Surrender or utter annihilation were the only alternatives."
Southern Confederacy, Atlanta GA, September 30, 1862 . . . — — Map (db m158629) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the right when traveling west on Gapland Road.
Between September 4th and 7th, 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, Commanding, crossed the Potomac near Leesburg, and occupied Frederick, Maryland. On the 10th a movement was made to surround and capture the Union forces at . . . — — Map (db m2020) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the right when traveling west on Gapland Road.
(September 14, 1862) Upon the approach of the Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac, from Jefferson, Col. T. T. Munford, Commanding Cavalry Brigade, prepared to dispute its advance through this Pass. Mahone’s Brigade, Lt. Col. Parham, Commanding, was . . . — — Map (db m2023) HM
Near Arnoldtown Road at Gapland Road, on the left when traveling south.
“I fired into the head of the column. I cut their colors down and I think I must have killed several of them. They come very nigh getting me several times.” Edgar Richardson, Troup Artillery
September 14, 1862 was not a good day for . . . — — Map (db m158560) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the right on Gapland Road.
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer’s Battery
September 14, 1862
Late in the afternoon the brigade advanced from the fields north and west of Burkittsville, charged up the mountain, carried this point and followed the enemy to the . . . — — Map (db m2061) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the left when traveling west on Gapland Road.
George Alfred Townsend, known by his pen name of “GATH,” was born in Georgetown, Delaware, in 1841. One of the youngest and most renowned special correspondents of his time, he reported on politics and war in both the . . . — — Map (db m2038) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the right when traveling west on Gapland Road.
None of the structures you see here in Crampton’s Gap existed during the battle on September 14, 1862. George Alfred Townsend constructed all the stone buildings and walls, as well as the Correspondents’ Arch, between 1884 and 1896. Townsend, . . . — — Map (db m1931) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the right when traveling west on Gapland Road.
C. S. A. Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws' Command (September 12-13, 1862) McLaws’ Command consisted of Kershaw’s, Barksdale’s, Semmes’ and Cobb’s Brigades of his own Division and R. H. Anderson’s Division of six Brigades-Wilcox’s, Mahone’s, . . . — — Map (db m2021) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the left when traveling west on Gapland Road.
(Left Side) On September 4, 1862, General Robert E. Lee, hoping to shorten the war by winning a decisive victory on Northern soil, crossed the Potomac River into Maryland. Lee planned to draw the Army of the Potomac through South Mountain into . . . — — Map (db m2039) HM
On Gapland Raod at Arnoldstown Road, on the left when traveling west on Gapland Raod.
In July 1862 Congress authorized the president to present medals to soldiers of the United States Army for gallant and meritorious service. On September 14, 1862, two soldiers so distinguished themselves during the fighting at Crampton’s Gap that . . . — — Map (db m2152) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the left when traveling west on Gapland Road.
(Front Side): The Mell Rifles, Co. D, Cobb’s Legion Infantry, was raised in Athens, GA. in July 1861, by Patrick Hues Mell, Baptist minster and Vice Chancellor of the University of Georgia. After Mell resigned due to his wife’s death, . . . — — Map (db m2044) HM
On Gapland Raod at Arnoldstown Road, on the left when traveling west on Gapland Raod.
On September 14, 1862, this area was an open field belonging to George W. Padgett. A wooden, rail fence lined the road on the east. A low, stone wall bordered the field to the west. As the shattered remnants of Brigadier General Howell Cobb’s force . . . — — Map (db m2144) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the right when traveling west on Gapland Road.
U. S. A. Sixth Army Corps. Major Gen. W. B. Franklin, Commanding (September 14, 1862) The Sixth Corps consisted of two Divisions commanded by Major Generals H. W. Slocum and W. F. Smith. On the march of the Army of the Potomac through Maryland, . . . — — Map (db m2024) HM
Near Arnoldtown Road at Gapland Road, on the left when traveling south.
“As the enemy pressed on the right the Fifteenth took position behind a rock fence, with instructions to hold it, which they did until the enemy succeeded in forcing the Georgia regiments (which formed the right of the brigade) back and . . . — — Map (db m159933) HM
Near Arnoldtown Road at Gapland Road, on the left when traveling south.
"At about ten o'clock we saw the first of the Yankee host about three miles away, approaching our gap cautiously and slowly. As they drew near the whole country seemed to be full of bluecoats. They were so numerous that it looked as if they were . . . — — Map (db m158440) HM
On Gapland Road at Arnoldstown Road, on the right when traveling west on Gapland Road.
In September, 1862, after the second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee led his victorious Confederates on their first invasion of the North. At Frederick, Md. he boldly divided his army. Three columns (No. 1) were to surround and capture the . . . — — Map (db m2032) HM
Near Arnoldtown Road at Gapland Road, on the left when traveling south.
"The charge was maintained to the top of the mountain, up an almost perpendicular steep, over rocks and ledges, through the underbrush and timber, until the crest, overlooking the valley beyond, was gained."
Colonel Joseph J. . . . — — Map (db m204508) HM
On Gapland Road just east of Catholic Church Road, on the right when traveling west.
The house served as Union Gen. William B. Franklin's 6th Corps Headquarters on the afternoon of September 14th, 1862 during the Battle of Crampton's Gap. Owned by the Burkittsville Preservation Association, Inc. a 501c3 non-profit, 2 West . . . — — Map (db m173630) HM
On Gapland Raod near Arnoldstown Road, on the left when traveling west.
On the evening of September 13, 1862, Confederate cavalry under Brigadier General Wade Hampton and Colonel Thomas Munford occupied the Crampton’s Gap/Burkittsville vicinity. Early on the 14th, Major General J.E.B. Stuart, en route to Harpers Ferry, . . . — — Map (db m2150) HM
On Gapland Raod at Arnoldstown Road, on the left when traveling west on Gapland Raod.
Organized in 1858 as the National Artillery, this unit changed its name to the Troup Light Artillery in honor of the former Georgia governor George W. Troup. It became a part of Cobb’s Legion when the war began. During the Maryland Campaign, the . . . — — Map (db m2143) HM
On Gapland Road near Arnoldstown Road, on the right when traveling west.
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To the Army Correspondents
and Artists 1861-65
Whose toils cheered the fireside
Educated provinces of rustics into
a bright nation of readers
and gave incentive to narrate
distant wars and . . . — — Map (db m13977) HM
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