Near Whites Ferry Road, 0.1 miles west of River Road, on the right when traveling west.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m808) HM
Near Mouth of Monocacy Road at Dickerson Road (Maryland Route 28).
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 . . . — — Map (db m65210) HM
On Old Hundred Road (Maryland Route 109) north of Comus Road, on the left when traveling north.
Sugarloaf Mountain Rises before you. There, the long running cavalry fight that began in the late afternoon on September 9, 1862, in Barnesville came to a halt. By the next morning the 8th Illinois and 3rd Indiana Cavalry were tangling with the 7th . . . — — Map (db m237323) HM
Near Whites Ferry Road, 0.1 miles south of River Road, on the right when traveling west.
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 . . . — — Map (db m173131) HM
Near Martinsburg Road, 2.5 miles west of Darnestown Road (Maryland Route 28), on the right when traveling west. Reported permanently removed.
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, . . . — — Map (db m812) HM
Near Martinsburg Road, 1.2 miles west of Wasche Road, on the right when traveling west.
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 m237612) HM
Near Old Hundred Road (Maryland Route 109) at Comus Road (Maryland Route 95), on the left when traveling north. Reported missing.
You are looking at Sugarloaf Mountain, where the running cavalry fight that began in the late afternoon on September 9, 1862, in Barnesville came to a halt. By the next morning, the 7th and 9th Virginia Cavalry had been brought to bay here at the . . . — — Map (db m1683) HM
Near South Frederick Ave (Route 355) just north of Fairbanks Drive, on the left when traveling north.
On Sunday, June 28, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and an estimated 5,000 cavalrymen arrived in Rockville en route to Gettysburg. Armed with a list of Union supporters, Stuart’s men planned to arrest John T. DeSellum as he left Presbyterian . . . — — Map (db m1709) HM
On Frederick Road (Maryland Route 355) at Hyattstown Mill Road, on the right when traveling north on Frederick Road. Reported missing.
The roadside village of Hyattstown became the front line when Confederate cavalry stationed to the north in Urbana clashed with Union cavalry reconnoitering from Clarksburg to the south. On the evening of September 8, 1862, Maj. Alonzo W. Adams and . . . — — Map (db m1727) HM
Gen. Joseph Hooker’s 75,000-man, seven-corps Army of the Potomac crossed the Potomac River here, June 25-27, 1863, on the way to Gettysburg. The army crossed on two 1,400-foot-long pontoon bridges. Heavy rains during those three days made the . . . — — Map (db m33741) HM
On Fisher Avenue / Whites Ferry Road (Maryland Route 107) at Elgin Road / Beallsville Road (Route 109), on the right on Fisher Avenue / Whites Ferry Road.
Located at the intersection of the two main roads, mid-19th century Poolesville was Montgomery County’s second-largest town. Its residents had decidedly secessionist tendencies and many sons fighting for the South. In the fall of 1862, as the . . . — — Map (db m1729) HM
Near Fisher Avenue / Whites Ferry Road (Maryland Route 107), on the right when traveling west.
During the Civil War, more soldiers passed through Poolesville than any other Montgomery County town. Union forces occupied this bustling village throughout most of the war, protecting the strategic road network, lines of communication and . . . — — Map (db m1730) HM
Near West Middle Lane west of North Adams Street, on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
In April 1862, Congress abolished slavery in Washington, D.C. District slaveholders were eligible for monetary compensation when they manumitted (freed) their slaves. Because the Beall sisters held several slaves who worked in the District, they . . . — — Map (db m5416) HM
On West Middle Lane just west of North Adams Street, on the left when traveling west.
When the Civil War began in 1861, this house was the residence of the "Misses Beal," three unmarried sisters—Matilda B. (1812-1870), Jane E. (1815-1863), and Margaret J. (1817-1901)—who had inherited the property after their mother died in 1849. . . . — — Map (db m174800) HM
On South Washington Street near Vinson Street, on the right when traveling south.
Early Sunday morning, June 28, 1863, 5,000 of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalrymen rode into Rockville and arrested Union supporters. They sought merchant John H. Higgins at his home, but he had already left for Christ Episcopal Church . . . — — Map (db m201497) HM
On Maryland Avenue south of East Montgomery Avenue, on the right when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and an estimated 5,000 cavalrymen arrived in Rockville, the Montgomery County seat, on June 28, 1863, to a boisterous reception. One soldier described “a spectacle which was truly pleasing … It was Sunday, and the . . . — — Map (db m65) HM
Near West Montgomery Avenue west of North Adams Street, on the right when traveling west.
This was the office of Dr. Edward E. Stonestreet, who practiced medicine from 1852 to 1903. He began his career here as a country doctor serving Montgomery County. During the Federal draft of 1862, he examined an estimated 800 draftees and . . . — — Map (db m174801) HM
On Maryland Avnue south of East Montgomery Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north . . . — — Map (db m73) HM
On West Middle Lane at North Adams Street, on the right when traveling west on West Middle Lane. Reported missing.
Early Sunday morning, June 28, 1863, Confederate cavalrymen arrived at merchant John Higgins' house to arrest him, but he had already left for Christ Episcopal Church. Instead they captured Eblen, a 17 year-old Union soldier recuperating here. . . . — — Map (db m102790) HM
On West Jefferson Street (Maryland Route 28) near South Van Buren Street, on the right.
From his home, E. Barrett Prettyman, a prominent Rockville citizen and educator, watched approximately 5,000 Confederate cavalrymen ride into Rockville in three columns on Sunday, June 28, 1863. Like many other Montgomery County residents, . . . — — Map (db m37575) HM
Near West Middle Lane near North Adams Street, on the right when traveling east. Reported damaged.
Of the four presidential candidates in 1860, Abraham Lincoln received only 50 of Montgomery County's 2429 votes. Some of Rockville's 365 residents surrendered government jobs in Washington, refusing to sign the Oath of Loyalty, rather than face . . . — — Map (db m102181) HM
On Maryland Avenue south of East Montgomery Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
The Montgomery County Courthouse that stood here from 1840 to 1891 witnessed the turbulent antebellum and Civil War years in Rockville. It was the setting for legal transactions involving both the selling and emancipation of enslaved individuals. . . . — — Map (db m202643) HM
On Rileys Lock Road south of River Road, on the right when traveling south.
On June 24, 1863, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, leaving 3,000 cavalrymen in Rectortown, Virginia, to monitor Federal activity, led three Confederate cavalry brigades to Haymarket. Encountering Union Gen. Winfield S. Hancock’s corps marching north, Stuart sent . . . — — Map (db m201496) HM
On Brandywine Road at Woolyard Road (Maryland Highway 223) on Brandywine Road.
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 m60164) HM
Near Brandywine Road (Maryland Route 381) 0.1 miles south of Woodyard Road (Maryland Road 223), on the left when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
Owned and operated by the ardently pro-Southern Surratt family, this building was used by Confederate agents as a safe house during the Civil War. Built in 1852, the structure was a tavern, hostelry and post office.
Surratt's son, John, Jr., a . . . — — Map (db m4188) HM
On Brandywine Road, 0.1 miles north of Horseshoe Road, on the right when traveling north.
Owned and operated by the ardently pro-Southern Surratt family, this building was used by Confederate agents as a safe house during the Civil War. Built in 1852, the structure was a tavern, hostelry, and post office.
Surratt's son, John, . . . — — Map (db m154461) HM
On Hayden Road (Maryland Route 834) at Blue Star Memorial Highway (U.S. 301), on the left when traveling west on Hayden Road.
Welcome to Queen Anne's County! The Civil War intruded into quiet Eastern Shore communities, and residents of this beautiful, water-laced region faced difficult choices.
In the years before the war, enslaved African Americans from the . . . — — Map (db m174558) HM
Near Piney Narrows Road, on the right when traveling north. 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 began . . . — — Map (db m8329) HM
On Piney Narrows Road, 0.1 miles east of Swan Cove Lane, on the left when traveling east.
Welcome to Kent County! The Civil War intruded into quiet Eastern Shore communities, and residents of this beautiful, water-laced region faced difficult choices.
In the years before the war, enslaved African Americans from the Eastern Shore . . . — — Map (db m204955) HM
On Maryland Route 18 at Del Rhodes Avenue, on the left when traveling south on State Route 18.
Queenstown, like most of the Eastern Shore in 1861, was a slaveholding community, and the impending conflict was regarded with concern and fear. When war erupted, families were torn apart because of their conflicting loyalities. It was not uncommon . . . — — Map (db m3113) HM
On Maddox Road (Maryland Route 238) at Chaptico Hurry Road, on the left when traveling east on Maddox Road.
Tiny Chaptico was home to many daring men, beginning with John Coode who led Maryland's 1689 Protestant Rebellion. During the Civil War, Chaptico's blockade runners carried medicine and other supplies at night across the Potomac River past Union . . . — — Map (db m168637) HM
During the night of May 19, 1864, Confederate Navy Capt. John Goldsmith and a dozen men slipped past a nearby Union Potomac Flotilla gunboat and disembarked here from the 30-foot sloop Swan. They intended to destroy the Blackistone . . . — — Map (db m204935) HM
On Point Breeze Road, 0.2 miles east of Colton Point Road (Route 242), on the left when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
On May 19, 1864 Confederates raided St. Clement's Island to destroy the 1851 lighthouse. Capt. John Goldsmith, a county residence who had once owned the island, led the attack, having joined the Confederate army in Virginia. In a thirty-foot . . . — — Map (db m9181) HM
On Point Breeze Road, 0.1 miles east of Colton Point Road, on the left when traveling east.
It was April 22, 1865, the eight day of the intense manhunt for President Lincoln's assassin—John Wilkes Booth—across southern Maryland. U.S. Army and Navy detachments were in the chase, including vessels of the Potomac Flotilla, which had helped . . . — — Map (db m204852) HM
On Courthouse Drive west of Washington Street (Maryland Route 326), on the right when traveling east. Reported missing.
When the white citizens of St.
Mary’s County voted here in the
1860 presidential election, John
Breckenridge, the secessionist candidate who carried Maryland, got
920 votes. Abraham Lincoln received 9 percent of the popular Maryland vote; the . . . — — Map (db m187358) HM
On Court House Drive east of Washington Street (Maryland Route 326), on the right when traveling east.
In 1860, male voters gathered here at the courthouse to cast their ballots. Before the mid-nineteenth century, voice voting was common, with each voter announcing his choices in front of one and all. Then came paper tickets or ballots colorfully . . . — — Map (db m187359) HM
On Three Notch Road (Maryland Route 235) 0.1 miles north of Buse Road, on the left when traveling south.
During the Civil War, more than 700 African American men from St. Mary's County served as soldiers and sailors in the U.S. Army and Navy. Some enlisted to obtain their freedom; some were already free and joined from a sense of duty. Black men . . . — — Map (db m181789) HM
Near Lighthouse Road (County Route 498) 1.4 miles east of Piney Point Road (County Route 249), on the left when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
In 1861, the U.S. created the Potomac Flotilla (gunboats and other armed vessels) to patrol the river and intercept Confederate blockade runners. Nevertheless, St. Mary's County residents frequently ferried supplies and men across to Virginia. A . . . — — Map (db m188560) HM
Near Lighthouse Road (County Route 498) 1.4 miles east of Piney Point Road (County Route 249), on the left when traveling east.
Here at Piney Point Lighthouse on December 11, 1861, Captain Shore of the steamer Chamberlin disembarked when he saw a distress flag flying. Inside the lighthouse, the wife of Keeper Robert J. Marshall, reported that "five or six loads of . . . — — Map (db m188667) HM
On Point Lookout Road, on its terminus loop (Maryland Route 5), 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 families . . . — — Map (db m1000) HM
On Point Lookout Road, on its terminus loop (Maryland Route 5), on the right when traveling north.
Hammond General Hospital, opened
at Point Lookout, Maryland, in
August 1862, was named for Surgeon General William A. Hammond. The massive structure, built
to accommodate 1,400 amen, was set on piles about two to three feet
above ground and . . . — — Map (db m1001) HM
On East Strand at North Morris Street (County Route 333), on the left when traveling east on East Strand.
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued January 1, 1863, authorized the recruiting of African Americans as United States soldiers. Blacks on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware sought freedom for themselves and their families in return their . . . — — Map (db m34451) HM
On Main Street (Maryland Route 565) at Barber Road, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
This was the home of Nathaniel Hopkins, known affectionately in Talbot County as "Uncle Nace." He was born a slave near here in 1831. After leaving his owner, Percy McKnett, and serving in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War, . . . — — Map (db m154465) HM
On Unionville Road, on the right when traveling north.
From the beginning of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman urged President Abraham Lincoln to allow blacks to enlist in the U.S. Army and fight for their freedom. On May 22, 1863, General Orders 143 were issued stating "A Bureau is . . . — — Map (db m61390) HM
On Fort Frederick Road south of Big Pool Road (Maryland Route 56), on the right when traveling south.
Built by the Maryland colony in 1756 during the French and Indian War, Fort Frederick’s stone walls surrounded three large buildings. The colonists abandoned the frontier fort in 1759, when the threat of Indian raids subsided. During the . . . — — Map (db m821) HM
On Fort Frederick Road, on the right when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m32675) HM
On Fort Frederick Road south of Big Pool Road (Maryland Route 56), on the right when traveling south.
Nathan Williams was the son of Samuel “Big Sam” Williams, a slave who in 1826 bought freedom for himself, his wife, and his four children. In 1839, the elder Williams purchased a farm near Four Locks, about 3.5 miles east of Fort . . . — — Map (db m5571) HM
On Fort Frederick Road, on the right when traveling south.
When the Civil War divided the nation, Maryland found itself on the conflict's pivotal border between
North and South. Today you can trace history along
Maryland's Civil War Trail driving tours. Learn about people just like yourself, caught
in . . . — — Map (db m233397) HM
On Old National Road (Alternate U.S. 40), on the right when traveling south.
Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart faced a difficult assignment: to locate the Union cavalry and prevent it from severing Gen. Robert E. Lee’s avenue of retreat to Williamsport and the Potomac River after the Battle of Gettysburg. The result was the . . . — — Map (db m203040) HM
On Old National Pike (Alternate U.S. 40) 1.2 miles east of Gilardi Road, on the right when traveling east.
After Gen. Robert E. Lee issued Special Order 191 near Frederick dividing the Army of Northern Virginia into four columns, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s command marched across South Mountain on September 10, 1862. His column . . . — — Map (db m122154) HM
On Reno Monument Road near the Appalachian Trail, on the left when traveling west.
The fight for Fox’s Gap on September 14, 1862, claimed the lives of two generals, one from each side. Confederate Gen. Samuel Garland, a Lynchburg, Virginia native, attended the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington and later obtained his law . . . — — Map (db m455) HM
On Old National Pike (Alternate U.S. 40) at Orchard Drive / Shafer Park Road, on the right when traveling east on Old National Pike.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m1913) HM
On Reno Monument Road at the Appalachian Trail, on the left when traveling west on Reno Monument Road.
As Confederate Gen. D.H. Hill’s division struggled to hold the gaps of South Mountain on September 14, 1862, the fighting here at Fox’s Gap raged throughout the day. About 9 a.m., Gen. Jesse L. Reno’s corps attacked Confederate Gen. Samuel . . . — — Map (db m454) HM
On North Main Street / Old National Road (Alternate U.S. 40), on the right when traveling south.
During the Antietam Campaign, the U.S. Signal Corps used the stone structure in front of you and to your left as a signal station. On July 4, 1827, citizens of the town of Boonsboro paraded to the top of the mountain here and began building this . . . — — Map (db m1161) HM
During the Antietam Campaign, the U.S. Signal Corps used the stone structure as a signal station. On July 4, 1827, citizens of the town of Boonsboro paraded to the top of the mountain here and began building this first monument in the country . . . — — Map (db m1886) HM
On Rohrersville Road (State Highway 67), on the right when traveling north.
(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's smashing victory over Union Gen. John Pope at the Second Battle of Manassas, Lee decided to invade the North to reap the fall harvest, gain Confederate recruits, earn foreign recognition, and . . . — — Map (db m144916) HM
On Fairview Road (County Route 494) at Greencastle Pike (Maryland Route 63), on the right when traveling east on Fairview Road.
Four thousands of Confederates in Gen. Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North in 1863, the rate of march exceeded thirty miles a day. Since this part of Maryland is so narrow, splashing across the Potomac River in the morning and crossing the Mason . . . — — Map (db m210069) HM
On Fairview Road (County Route 494) at Greencastle Pike (Maryland Route 63), on the right when traveling east on Fairview Road.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m210065) HM
On Cumberland Street (U.S. 40) at Mill Street (Maryland Route 68), on the right when traveling west on Cumberland Street. Reported permanently removed.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m695) HM
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m60555) HM
On Cumberland Street (U.S. 40) at North Mill Street (Maryland Route 68), on the right when traveling west on Cumberland Street.
This was a lively Unionist community on the important National Road during the war. In nearby Four Locks on January 31, 1861, local residents raised a 113-foot-high “Union Pole” with a streamer proclaiming the “Union Forever.”
Many local men . . . — — Map (db m60553) HM
On Rufus Wilson Road, on the right when traveling west.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m5925) HM
On Chestnut Grove Road, 0.3 miles east of McCoy Road, on the left when traveling east.
In June 1864, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee sent Gen. Jubal A. Early's corps from the Richmond battlefield to the Shenandoah Valley to counter Union Gen. David Hunter's army. After driving Hunter into West Virginia, Early invaded Maryland . . . — — Map (db m169873) HM
On Chestnut Grove Road, on the right when traveling south.
This is the Kennedy farmhouse, which abolitionist John Brown (using the pseudonym Isaac Smith) leased in July 1859 from Dr. Robert Kennedy's heirs, ostensibly to do some prospecting. Brown's fifteen-year-old daughter, Annie Brown, identified the . . . — — Map (db m169872) HM
On Shepherdstown Pike (Maryland Route 65) at Lappans Road (Route 68), on the right when traveling south on Shepherdstown Pike.
For the first time since the Battle of Gettysburg, most of the Union army faced Gen. Robert E. Lee on July 12, 1863. The Federals were firmly entrenched on a ridge parallel to the Sharpsburg-Hagerstown Turnpike a quarter mile west. Less than a mile . . . — — Map (db m1990) HM
On Old National Road (U.S. Alt 40), on the right when traveling south.
The Confederate presence at Funkstown threatened any Union advance against Gen. Robert E. Lee’s position near Williamsport and the Potomac River as he retreated to Virginia after the Battle of Gettysburg. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry, posted at . . . — — Map (db m1158) HM
On North Potomac Street (Maryland Route 65), on the right when traveling south.
Combat raged here in the town square and in adjoining city blocks for six hours on Monday, July 6, 1863. Holding Hagerstown was crucial to Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreat to Virginia after the Battle of Gettysburg. If the Confederates lost this . . . — — Map (db m6533) HM
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m6531) HM
On North Potomac Street (Maryland Route 65), on the right when traveling south.
Six days had passed since the Federals had failed in their first attempt to seize Hagerstown as they pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army retreating to Virginia after the Battle of Gettysburg. On Sunday morning, July 12, 1863, a decisive . . . — — Map (db m6534) HM
On the eastbound Sideling Hill Rest Area (Interstate 68 at milepost 75), 1.5 miles east of Exit 74, on the right when traveling east.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m718) HM
On the westbound Sideling Hill Visitors Center (Interstate 68 at milepost 75), 2.7 miles west of Exit 77 (Maryland Route 144), on the right when traveling west.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m719) HM
On Church Street south of Main Street (Maryland Route 144), on the left when traveling south.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north . . . — — Map (db m831) HM
On West Main Street (Maryland Route 144), on the left when traveling west.
Maj. James Breathed was born near present-day Berkeley Spring, W. Va., on December 15, 1838, and moved while young with his family to Washington Co., Md. He attended St. James School in Lydia, where his father John Breathed was headmaster. At age . . . — — Map (db m155364) HM
On Church Street south of Main Street (Maryland Route 144), on the left when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
Before you, at the top of Church Street, stands St. Thomas Episcopal Church, which became an unintended target of Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s artillery on January 5-6, 1862. Jackson had led his force from Winchester, Virginia to destroy as . . . — — Map (db m832) HM
On North Church Street at Western Maryland Rail Trail, on the left when traveling south on North Church Street.
On January 5, 1862, artillery shells screamed overhead from hills across the Potomac River behind you and crashed into an idyllic scene: this snow-covered town on a hilly riverbank. Up the street, Union troops took cover behind St. Thomas Episcopal . . . — — Map (db m199827) HM
Near Pen Mar High Rock Road, on the right when traveling south.
After a stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia through Maryland into Pennsylvania, marching next to threaten Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. The Army . . . — — Map (db m31048) HM
On Taylor Drive at North Main Street (Maryland Route 845), in the median on Taylor Drive.
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 . . . — — Map (db m1640) HM
On Pleasantville Road, 0.3 miles west of Pleasantville Road, on the left when traveling west.
In June 1864, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee sent Gen. Jubal A. Early's corps from the Richmond battlefields to the Shenandoah Valley to counter Union Gen. David Hunter's army. After driving Hunter into West Virginia, Early invaded . . . — — Map (db m173618) HM
On Lappans Road (Maryland Route 68), on the right when traveling west.
Gen. George G. Meade gathered his generals near here at his “Antietam Bridge” headquarters on the evening of July 12, 1863, to decide whether to assault the Confederate defenses near Williamsport protecting Gen. Robert E. Lee’s escape routes to the . . . — — Map (db m1982) HM
On Ringold Street at Ringold Pike (County Route 418) on Ringold Street.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m4732) HM
On Ringold Street at Ringold Pike (County Route 418), on the right when traveling south on Ringold Street.
Gettysburg Campaign It was a miserable night, and an even more miserable journey. As 3 a.m. neared on July 5, 1863, the van of the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg arrived here at Leitersburg. The men had marched nonstop for nearly twelve . . . — — Map (db m4730) HM
On Old National Pike (Alternate U.S. 40) at Washington Monument Road, on the right when traveling east on Old National Pike.
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. . . . — — Map (db m1520) HM
On Old National Pike (Alternate U.S. 40) at Washington Monument Road, on the right when traveling east on Old National Pike. Reported permanently removed.
An unnamed citizen of Frederick City said the following of the Confederates he had beheld marching through his hometown: “I have never seen a mass of such filthy strong-smelling men. Three in a room would make it unbearable, and when marching in . . . — — Map (db m1521) HM
On Old National Pike (Alternate U.S. 40) just east of Washington Monument Road, on the right when traveling east.
"I have never seen a mass of such filthy strong-smelling men. Three in a room would make it unbearable, and when marching in column along the street the smell from them was most offensive… The filth that pervades them is most remarkable… They . . . — — Map (db m157781) HM
On Old National Pike (Alternate U.S. 40) at Washington Monument Road, on the right when traveling east on Old National Pike.
The Battle of South Mountain erupted on September 14, 1862, when elements of the Union army tried to drive the Confederate rear guard from Crampton’s, Fox’s, and Turner’s Gaps and break through to the western side of the mountain to attack . . . — — Map (db m1519) HM
On Shepherdstown Pike (Maryland Route 34), on the left when traveling north.
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 m1967) HM
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. . . . — — Map (db m1970) HM
On Shepherdstown Pike (Maryland Route 34), on the left when traveling north.
After the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, soldiers’ families traveled by rail to Hagerstown or Frederick, and then by horse and buggy to the site to recover the bodies of loved ones or to search for survivors. Thus began a constant . . . — — Map (db m1968) HM
Near East Main Street (Maryland Route 34) east of South Church Street, on the right when traveling east.
Before you once stood the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, which served as a spiritual anchor for the community of Sharpsburg before it was damaged beyond repair during the September 17, 1862, Battle of Antietam. Built in 1768, just five years after . . . — — Map (db m231980) HM
On Boonesboro Pike (State Highway 34), on the right when traveling west.
In mid-June 1864, Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early's corps drove Union Gen. David Hunter's army into West Virginia after the Battle of Lynchburg. On June 23 Early launched an incursion through Maryland against Washington, D.C., to draw Union troops . . . — — Map (db m59127) HM
On Boonesboro Pike (Maryland Route 34), on the left when traveling east.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m67696) HM
On Shepherdstown Pike (Maryland Route 34), on the right when traveling north.
At the time of the bloody Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, this house was the home of Stephen P. Grove, and this was his farm. The Federal Army of the Potomac camped throughout the area after the battle; the Grove house became the . . . — — Map (db m156636) HM
As a young tree, the Burnside Sycamore witnessed the battle of Antietam. It still stands more than one hundred fifty years later and remains a favorite landmark for park visitors. You can help preserve and protect this living relic by appreciating . . . — — Map (db m89229) HM
Near West Water Street (Maryland Route 66), on the left when traveling east.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m1999) HM
Near West Water Street (Maryland Route 66), on the left when traveling east.
Gettysburg Campaign Following a night of harassing the Confederate wagon train retreating from Gettysburg, Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick’s Union cavalry division arrived here about 9 a.m. on July 5, 1963, escorting 1,360 prisoners. Wet, tired, . . . — — Map (db m2000) HM
Near Lappans Road, on the right when traveling east.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church is located just six miles north of Sharpsburg, site of the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, the bloodiest one-day battle in American history. With approximately 23,000 Americans on both sides killed, wounded, or . . . — — Map (db m103404) HM
On September 10, 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and a detachment of 15,000 men, about two-thirds of the Army of Northern Virginia, to capture the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry and secure Confederate . . . — — Map (db m1118) HM
The Potomac River trapped Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Confederate army during the retreat from Gettysburg. Flooded by torrential rains on July 4, 1863, the Potomac raged for more than a week, preventing Lee from crossing into present-day West . . . — — Map (db m193629) HM
Near Potomac Street (U.S. 11) when traveling west.
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m95856) HM
On Greencastle Pike (Route 63), on the right when traveling north.
The mountains provided Gen. Robert E. Lee with cover. As his army of 75,000 men and 272 pieces of artillery rumbled north through Washington County, the U.S. Army commander did not know his whereabouts because South Mountain, to the east, shielded . . . — — Map (db m39310) HM
