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By Craig Swain, January 13, 2007
Emmitsburg Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 ► Maryland, Frederick County, Emmitsburg — Emmitsburg — Road to Gettysburg
Near Catoctin Mountain Highway (U.S. 15), on the right. Reported permanently removed.
President Abraham Lincoln replaced Army of the Potomac commander Gen. Joseph Hooker with Gen. George G. Meade on June 28, 1863, as the army pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Meade placed Gen. John F. Reynolds, I Corps . . . — — Map (db m1546) HM
2 ► Maryland, Frederick County, Emmitsburg — Gettysburg Campaign — Invasion & Retreat
Near Catoctin Mountain Highway south of North Seton Avenue (Business U.S. 15), 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-Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through . . . — — Map (db m217372) HM
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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Nov. 13, 2026