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Maryland Civil War Trails Historical Markers
By Craig Swain, September 9, 2007
Map of Nearby Civil War Related Points of Interest
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On Counsil Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Connections with the Civil War abound around this Courthouse Square, where the first official act of defiance against the British crown - the 1765 Stamp Act Repudiation - occurred almost a century earlier. In 1857, Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice . . . — — Map (db m2815) HM |
| On Himes 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 through . . . — — Map (db m2792) HM |
| On East Patrick Street (State Highway 144), on the left when traveling west. |
| | In this building, soldiers who died in one of the many area hospitals following the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Monocacy were embalmed and prepared for interment at nearby Mount Olivet Cemetery or for shipment home. James . . . — — Map (db m97908) HM |
| On East Patrick Street (State Highway 144) at South Market Street, on the right when traveling west on East Patrick Street. |
| | Frederick found itself occupied alternatively by Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War. Citizens who frequented this "Square Corner" of Market and Patrick Streets saw Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia march west from here on . . . — — Map (db m2808) HM |
| On Himes Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Near this spot, on the grounds of Prospect Hall, Union Gen. George Gordon Meade replaced Gen. Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker as commander of the Army of the Potomac on Sunday, June 28, 1863. Meade took command reluctantly because he was concerned . . . — — Map (db m2775) HM |
| On North Market Street (State Highway 355), on the right when traveling north. Reported permanently removed. |
| | On June 28, 1863, Gen. John F. Reynolds rode into Federick to visit his cousin Catherine Reynolds Cramer and her sisters near the intersection of North Market and Second Streets. She would have much to write the rest of her family on July 1 about . . . — — Map (db m2814) HM |
| On North Market Street (Maryland Route 355) just south of East 2nd Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | On June 28, 1863, Union Gen. John F. Reynolds rode into Frederick to visit his cousin Catherine Reynolds Cramer and her sisters near the intersection of North Market and Second Streets. She would have much to write the rest of her family on July 1 . . . — — Map (db m146084) HM |
| On Catoctin Mountain Highway (U.S. 15) at Willow Road, on the right when traveling north on Catoctin Mountain Highway. |
| | It was here that George Armstrong Custer was first introduced as a general to the troops he would command. The first order signed by Gen. George G. Meade as the newly appointed commander of the Army of the Potomac on June 28, 1863 promoted three . . . — — Map (db m1539) HM |
| Near North Market Street (State Highway 355), on the right when traveling south. |
| | You are on the grounds of Rose Hill Manor, the final home of Maryland's first governor, Thomas Johnson. During its stay near Frederick, the Army of the Potomac's large Artillery Reserve occupied these grounds. Created after the Battle of . . . — — Map (db m2803) HM |
| Near Urbana Pike (State Highway 355), on the right when traveling north. |
| | After crossing the Potomac River early in September 1862, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee reorganized the Army of Northern Virginia into three separate wings. On September 9, he promulgated his campaign strategy - to divide his army, send Gen. Thomas . . . — — Map (db m18381) HM |
| On Lander Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In June 1863, Federal troops marched through Jefferson as the Army of the Potomac pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, a menacing force to the west—but where was it headed? Fearing that Lee would push through the gaps in . . . — — Map (db m2100) HM |
| On Hessong Bridge Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | When the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia Invaded Maryland in June 1863, the Army of the Potomac headed north in pursuit. On Monday, June 29, a “rainy, miserable day,” the 15,000 men, 2,900 horses and mules and 475 wagons of Gen. . . . — — Map (db m105250) HM |
| On Liberty Road / Main Street (Maryland Route 26), on the right when traveling west. |
| | Gettysburg Campaign On June 29, 1863, the Army of the Potomac's II Corps, commanded by Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, broke camp south of Frederick near the Monocacy River, marched into Frederick, and turned eastward on the road to Liberty . . . — — Map (db m4017) HM |
| On South Church Street (Maryland Route 17) 0 miles south of Washington Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Eight thousand Confederates under Gen. Lafayette McLaws marched by this church on September 10-11, 1862, heading south to Harper’s Ferry. Since no Federals were in the area, McLaws expected no encounters with the enemy. Unknown to him, however, . . . — — Map (db m796) HM |
| On West Main Street (Alternate U.S. 40) at Elm Street, on the left when traveling west on West Main Street. |
| | Late in June 1863, the Union Army of the Potomac pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as it invaded the North for the second time. The Federal left flank under Gen. John F. Reynolds occupied the Middletown Valley, June 25–27, . . . — — Map (db m418) HM |
| On West Main Street (Alternate U.S. 40) at Elm Street, on the left when traveling west on West Main Street. |
| | When Gen. Robert E. Lee and part of the Army of Northern Virginia passes through Middletown on September 10–11, 1862, they encountered a chilly reception. The inhabitants of this single-street hamlet on the National Road loved the Union, and . . . — — Map (db m21911) HM |
| Near North Church Street (Maryland Route 17) at West Main Street (Alternate U.S. 40), on the right when traveling south. |
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(preface)
In June 1864, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee sent Gen. Jubal A. Early’s corps from Richmond battlefields to the Shenandoah Valley to counter Union Gen. David Hunter’s army. After driving Hunter into West Virginia, Early invaded . . . — — Map (db m76668) HM |
| On West Main Street (Alternate U.S. 40) just east of Elm Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | After Confederate Gen. Robert e. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into . . . — — Map (db m143920) 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. George . . . — — Map (db m5923) 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 m5922) HM |
| On West Main Street (Maryland Route 144) at Strawberry Alley, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street. |
| | Late in June 1863, the Union Army of the Potomac pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as it invaded the North less than a year after the Antietam Campaign. On Monday, June 29, the Federal corps marched north toward Pennsylvania on . . . — — Map (db m129752) HM |
| On East Main Street (State Highway 144), on the right when traveling west. Reported permanently removed. |
| | Gettysburg Campaign Late in June 1863, the Union Army of the Potomac pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as it invaded the North less than a year after the Antietam Campaign. On Monday, June 29, the Federal corps marched north . . . — — Map (db m129753) HM |
| On Clay Street (Maryland Route 28) east of Catoctin Mountain Highway (U.S. 15). |
| | In mid-June 1863, with rumors of a pending reinvasion of Maryland by Confederate forces, most Baltimore and Ohio trains stopped running past here. As tension mounted, the New York Times reported that no trains were departing Baltimore, “except . . . — — Map (db m743) HM |
| On Clay Street (Maryland Route 28) east of Catoctin Mountain Road (U.S. 15). |
| | The rail line immediately before you served as an important means of supply and communication during the Civil War (the station, and tracks to Washington, D.C., on the southern or right side of the station were built later). Here at Point of Rocks, . . . — — Map (db m744) HM |
| On Blacks Mill Road at Catoctin Furnace Road (Maryland Route 806) on Blacks Mill Road. |
| | Gettysburg Campaign When Union Gen. John F. Reynolds’ I Corps marched by here on June 29, 1863, en route to Emmitsburg and soon to Gettysburg, his men were progressing “swimmingly.” The workers of the Catoctin Furnace had little time . . . — — Map (db m105249) HM |
| On Main Street (Maryland Route 77) at Water Street / North Church Street, on the right when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | On June 29, 1863, Mechanicstown was full of the noise of an army on the move as Union Gen. John F. Reynolds marched I Corps to Emmitsburg. Until then, residents had only heard rumors of the advancing Confederates as nervous farmers hurried horses . . . — — Map (db m1540) HM |
| Near Urbana Pike (Maryland Route 355) at Fingerboard Road (Maryland Route 80), on the right when traveling west. |
| | Constructed in 1754 on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, this building was reconstructed here in 1846 and became Landon Female Academy. Early in September 1862, while infantry of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia rested . . . — — Map (db m1739) HM |
| Near Urban Pike at Lew Wallace Street, on the left when traveling west. |
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(preface)
In June 1864, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and 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 . . . — — Map (db m76643) HM |
| Near National Highway (Interstate 68) 2 miles east of Maryland Route 42, 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 m139840) HM |
| Near Visitors Center Drive just west of Garrett Highway (U.S. 219), on the left 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 m2170) HM |
| On Herrington Manor Road east of Fingerboard Road. |
| | On April 26, 1863, during the Confederate occupation of Oakland, a detachment of Confederate Capt. John H. McNeill's partisan rangers attacked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge here over the Youghiogheny River. They were part of a larger group . . . — — Map (db m481) HM |
| On East Liberty Street west of South 2nd Street, on the left 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 m484) HM |
| On East Liberty Street west of South 2nd Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | On Sunday, April 26, 1863, a detachment of Confederate Capt. John H. McNeill's partisan rangers under Col. A. W. Harman attacked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad facilities here in Oakland. They were part of Confederate Gen. William E. . . . — — Map (db m485) HM |
| On Maryland Highway (Maryland Route 135) west of Altamont Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | On April 26, 1863, a detachment of Confederate Capt. John H. McNeill’s partisan rangers attacked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad facilities here at Altamont. They were part of a larger group that entered Oakland that Sunday as Confederate Gen. . . . — — Map (db m37544) HM |
| | After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, the U.S. Army recruited both free blacks and slaves. In August 1863, freedman Alfred B. Hilton and his brothers Aaron and Henry enlisted in the 4th U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) in Havre de Grace. . . . — — Map (db m152377) HM |
| On Main Street at Office Street, on the right on Main Street. |
| | On July 31, 1861, 300 men from the 12th Pennsylvania Infantry under Capt. Daniel Leasure marched into Bel Air to arrest Southern sympathizers and confiscate weapons from local militia units. The troops halted at the courthouse square, then dispersed . . . — — Map (db m156302) HM |
| Near Kearney Drive south of Latimer Road. |
| | On July 6, 1864, Confederate cavalrymen crossed the Potomac River into Maryland as part of a 12,000 man force under Gen. Jubal A. Early, who planned to attack lightly defended Washington, D.C., and draw off part of the Union army menacing Richmond . . . — — Map (db m152186) HM |
| On Roxbury Mills Road (Maryland Route 97) at Old Frederick Road (Maryland Route 144), on the right when traveling north on Roxbury Mills 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 m935) HM |
| On Furnace Avenue 0.1 miles west of Railroad Avenue, on the left when traveling south. Reported permanently removed. |
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On May 5, 1861, U.S. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler occupied Relay, Maryland, with the 8th New York and 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments and Cook's Boston Battery of light artillery. Their mission was to prevent Confederate sympathizers from . . . — — Map (db m5876) HM |
| On Furnace Avenue 0.1 miles east of Railroad Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
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On May 5, 1861, the 8th New York and 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments and Cook's Boston Battery of light artillery occupied the heights around you. Their mission was to prevent Confederate sympathizers from sabotaging the strategic Thomas . . . — — Map (db m150570) HM |
| On Main Street (Maryland Route 144) at Maryland Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Main Street. Reported permanently removed. |
| | One of the first railroads in the country, constructed in 1830 of wooden rails that carried horse-drawn cars, extended from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills. This station was built the next year, and soon steel rails replaced wooden ones as the . . . — — Map (db m29961) HM |
| On Main Street (Maryland Route 144) at Maryland Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Main Street. |
| | When the Civil War began, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became a vital transportation route for the Federal armies, with men and supplies passing by this station day and night. To protect the line, local businessman Thomas McGowan raised the . . . — — Map (db m144727) HM |
| On Main Street (Maryland Route 144) at Hamilton Street, on the right when traveling east on Main Street. Reported permanently removed. |
| | During the Civil War, Baltimore and its environs exemplified the divided loyalties of Maryland's residents. The city had commercial ties to the South as well as the North, and its secessionist sympathies erupted in violence on April 19, 1861, when . . . — — Map (db m192) HM |
| On Hamilton Street just west of Main Street (Maryland Route 144), on the right when traveling west. |
| | During the Civil War, Baltimore and its environs exemplified the divided loyalties of Maryland's residents. The city had commercial ties to the South as well as the North, and its secessionist sympathies erupted in violence on April 19, 1861, when . . . — — Map (db m144730) HM |
| On Main Street at Rogers Avenue, on the left when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | Howard County native Decatur Dorsey was one of only sixteen African American soldiers to received the Medal of Honor for courage under fire during the Civil War. Sgt. Dorsey, of Company B, 39th United States Colored Troops, earned his medal at the . . . — — Map (db m5756) HM |
| On Main Street (Maryland Route 144) at Ellicott Mills Drive, on the right on Main Street. |
| | By the 1850s, a prosperous community was located here around the Ellicott family gristmills and ironworks established in the 1770s. When the Civil War began in 1861, the town's population exceeded 2,000. Although the mill workers and merchants of . . . — — Map (db m37545) HM |
| Near Church Road 0.1 miles north of Sarahs Lane. |
| | The stabilized ruin above you - the Patapsco Female Institute - served the young ladies of the North and South from 1837 to 1891. Amelia Hart Lincoln Phelps, a renowned author and educator, headed the school between 1841 and 1855. Concerned with the . . . — — Map (db m74252) HM |
| Near Foundry Street north of Gorman Road when traveling west. |
| | The mill town of Savage served a vital need for the United States Army after the Civil War began in 1861. William Baldwin who had purchased the mills in 1859 manufactured canvas for cannon covers and tents. Although cotton was in short supply, . . . — — Map (db m22462) HM |
| On Cross Street, on the right. |
| | War on the Chesapeake Bay. During the Civil War, Baltimore and its environs exemplified the divided loyalties of Maryland’s residents. The city had commercial ties to the South as well as the North, and its secessionist sympathies erupted in . . . — — Map (db m62758) HM |
| On South Queen Street just south of Cannon Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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African American Civil War veterans constructed this meeting hall for Charles Sumner Post No. 25, Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) in 1908. The hall is one of only two known to survive that were built for soldiers who served in . . . — — Map (db m156672) HM |
| Near High Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | John Leeds Barroll first walked these courthouse grounds, as a prominent Kent County lawyer before becoming a newspaper publisher. He was admitted to the bar in 1852 and served as the county State’s Attorney, 1854–1856, then founded the . . . — — Map (db m3066) HM |
| Near High Street (Maryland Route 20) 0.2 miles west of Flatland Road (Maryland Route 514). |
| | At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, George Vickers opposed secession and used his influence to keep Maryland in the Union. He became a major general of the 2nd Division, Maryland Militia, and helped form the 2nd Regiment Eastern Shore . . . — — Map (db m156850) HM |
| On High Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | In June 1917, Judge James A. Pearce commemorated the Civil War soldiers of Kent County by erecting a monument to honor the patriotism and valor of a once divided, but now reunited country. The rough-cut and polished granite monument behind you . . . — — Map (db m5585) HM |
| On Barnesvile Road at West Harris Road, on the left when traveling west on Barnesvile Road. |
| | The advance of Union Gen. John F. Reynolds’ I Corps began slogging through Barnesville on the morning of Friday, June 26, 1863, having crossed the Potomac River the afternoon before and camped west of town. Continuous heavy rain made marching muddy . . . — — Map (db m1678) HM |
| On Barnesvile Road just west of West Harris Road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | On the evening of September 5, 1862, Gen. Wade Hampton’s and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s Confederate cavalry brigades bivouacked around Barnesville. They rode the next day to their base camp at Urbana, leaving the 9th Virginia Cavalry to guard Barnesville. . . . — — Map (db m156129) HM |
| On Beallsville Road (Maryland Route 109) at Darnestown Road (Maryland Route 28), on the right when traveling south on Beallsville Road. |
| | On September 9, 1862, the running engagement between Illinois, Indiana, and Virginia cavalry units that began the day before in Poolesville continued in Beallsville when two Federal regiments forced the single regiment of Virginia cavalrymen posted . . . — — Map (db m1681) HM |
| On High Street (Maryland Route 97) just south of Market Street (Maryland Route 97), on the right when traveling north. |
| | On June 28, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart left Rockville with three cavalry brigades, 125 captured Union supply wagons, and more than 400 military and civilian prisoners, arriving in Brookeville that night. At every opportunity, prisoners . . . — — Map (db m366) HM |
| On Old Hundred Road (Maryland Route 109) at Comus Road (Maryland Route 95), on the right when traveling south on Old Hundred Road. |
| | 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 |
| On Darnestown Road (Maryland Route 28) 0.4 miles west of Seneca Road (Maryland Route 112), on the right when traveling west. |
| | On June 25-27, 1863, the Federal Army of the Potomac used two temporary pontoon bridges to cross the Potomac River from Virginia back into Maryland at Edwards Ferry. On the evening and morning of June 27-28, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart led 5,000 . . . — — Map (db m1684) HM |
| On the White’s Ferry parking lot near White"s Ferry Road (Maryland Route 107). |
| | 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. . . . — — Map (db m809) HM |
| Near Old Hundred Road (Maryland Route 109) at Comus Road, 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 m76266) HM |
| 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 |
| 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 m807) HM |
| Near Martinsburg Road 2.5 miles west of Darnestown Road (Maryland Route 28), on the right when traveling west. |
| | 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 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. |
| | 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 |
| On Edward's Ferry Road, on the right. |
| | 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 single . . . — — 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. |
| | 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 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 cavarlymen 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 (across . . . — — Map (db m37574) HM |
| On Courthouse Square near Washington Street and West Montgomery Avenue, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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, . . . — — Map (db m65) HM |
| On Courthouse Square near Washington Street at West Montgomery Avenue, 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 m73) HM |
| On West Middle Lane at North Adams Street, on the right when traveling west on West Middle Lane. |
| | 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. When . . . — — 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, Prettyman . . . — — Map (db m37575) HM |
| Near West Middle Lane near North Adams Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 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 m761) HM |
| On Comus Road (Maryland Route 95) at Sugarloaf Mountain Road, on the right on Comus Road. |
| | You are at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain, where on September 5-6, 1862, Union observers watched the Army of Northern Virginia cross the Potomac River to invade Maryland. A signal station had been established here in the summer of 1861, one in a . . . — — Map (db m147010) 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. |
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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 |
| Near Piney Narrows Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | 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 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 medicin and other supplies at night across the Potomac River past Union . . . — — Map (db m17426) HM |
| On Point Breeze Road 0.2 miles east of Colton Point Road (Route 242), on the left when traveling east. |
| | 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 Courthouse Drive west of Washington Street (Maryland Route 326), on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 m955) HM |
| | 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 m65046) 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. |
| | 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 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 m1630) 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 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 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 |
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