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★ ANTIETAM CAMPAIGN SITES ★
★ Leesburg (Loudoun Museum) – Antietam Campaign
Tour begins here, where Lee rested the Army of Northern
Virginia before invading Maryland.
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★ Mile Hill – A surprise attack led by Confederate Col.
Thomas Munford on Sept. 2, 1862, routed Federal forces.
★ White’s Ferry (C&O Canal NHP) – A major part of Lee’s
army forded the Potomac River two miles north of this modern ferry crossing, at White’s Ford.
To Cumberland, Md.
★ White’s Ford (C&O Canal NHP) – Here the major part
of the Army of Northern Virginia forded the Potomac River
into Maryland on September 5-6, 1862, while a Confederate
band played “Maryland! My Maryland!”
★ Poolesville – Site of cavalry skirmishes on September 5
& 8, 1862.
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★ Beallsville – A running cavalry fight passed through town
Campaign Driving Route
on September 9, 1862.
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Alternate Campaign Driving Route
★ Barnesville – On September 9, 1862, opposing cavalry
units chased each other through town several times.
HAGERSTOWN
Rose Hill
Cemetery
★ Comus (Mt. Ephraim Crossroads) – Confederate cavalry
fought a successful rearguard action here, September 9-11,
1862, to protect the infantry at Frederick.
Confederate signalmen atop the mountain watched the
opposing army.
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Williamsport
(C&O Canal NHP)
★ Monocacy Aqueduct (C&O Canal NHP) – Confederate
Other Civil War Site
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The German Reformed Church in Keedysville
was used as a hospital after the battle.
★ Sugarloaf Mountain – At different times, Union and
Campaign Site
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South Mountain
Recreation Area
troops tried and failed to destroy or damage the aqueduct
on September 4 & 9, 1862.
★ Monocacy River Ford – The Confederate army encountered many sympathizers before they crossed the river here,
but few on the other side.
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★ Carrollton Manor – The landscape has changed little
since the Confederate army camped here on September 5-6,
1862, and devoured fields full of green corn.
★ Buckeystown Park – Hungry Confederates ate freshly
baked bread made with flour milled here.
Gen. McClellan entering the town of Frederick.
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★ Hyattstown – Several cavalry engagements occurred here,
September 8-11, 1862.
★ Urbana (Landon House) – The site of a ball held by Gen.
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the likely site where the famous Lost Order (Special Orders
No. 191) was found, containing Gen. Robert E. Lee’s campaign strategy.
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MARTINSBURG
The Confederate army received a chilly reception from the
town’s strongly pro-Union citizens when it marched through
on September 10-11, 1862.
Belle Boyd House
★ Middletown (Christ Reformed Church) – The church
Ferry Hill
★ Turner’s Gap – The Confederates still held the gap at the
Grove Farm
SHEPHERDSTOWN
★ Washington Monument – The Union army used this stone
tower as a signal station during the Antietam Campaign.
Boteler’s Ford
Original Site
Moler
Crossroads
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September 14, 1862, this picturesque village became a bloodsoaked hospital center.
★ Back Door to Harpers Ferry – Following the Battle of
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★ Rumsey Monument – Dedicated to James Rumsey, who
Licksville
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★ Harpers Ferry National Historical Park – Strategic
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★ OTHER CIVIL WAR SITES ★
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Dawsonville
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National Museum of
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Burnside’s Bridge
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Loudoun
Museum
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attacked the retreating Federal army here. In a confused
engagement during a thunderstorm, Union Gens. Philip
Kearney and Isaac Stevens were killed.
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• Chantilly – After the Second Battle of Manassas, Jackson
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major battles: the first large-scale fight of the war (July 21,
1861) and one of Lee’s greatest victories (Aug. 29–30, 1862),
after which he decided to invade the North.
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Historical Society
of Frederick County
Antietam
National
Cemetery
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HARPERS
famous Confederate spy. It is now home to the Berkeley Co.
Historical Society and Historic Landmarks Commission.
Beallsville
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Sharpsburg
• Belle Boyd House – Restored circa 1853 home of the
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• B&O Railroad Roundhouse – Important Martinsburg
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White’s
Dickerson Ford
Conservation
Park
From the Maryland shore of
the Potomac River, a Federal scout
takes aim at Lee’s soldiers as they
wade across the river from Virginia.
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Overlook
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• Kennedy Farm – In this simple log house leased by abolitionist John Brown in the summer of 1859, he laid his plans,
gathered his associates, and launched his raid on Harpers
Ferry on Oct. 16.
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story of medical practices during the war, when Frederick
had many hospitals.
• Manassas National Battlefield Park – The site of two
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• National Museum of Civil War Medicine – Tells the
Oct. 21, 1861, Confederates routed Union forces here and
drove them over the bluff into the Potomac River.
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• Monocacy National Battlefield – On July 9, 1864,
• Ball’s Bluff Battlefield & National Cemetery – On
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Aqueduct
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★ Moler Crossroads – Elements of the Confederate army
facility destroyed by Stonewall Jackson’s troops in 1862.
Rebuilt after the war.
Comus
Monocacy
River Ford
September 19-20, as Lee’s army crossed back into Virginia
and Union forces struck the Confederate rear guard.
communication and supply depot at the confluence of the
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers.
Little Bennett
Regional Park
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hospital center after the Battle of Antietam and nearby the
scene of the last engagement of the campaign on September
20, 1862.
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★ Shepherdstown – This place became a Confederate
Union Gen. Lewis Wallace’s stubborn defense delayed for
two days Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early’s advance on
Washington, D.C.
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★ Ferry Hill – This was the home of Henry Kyd Douglas,
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Bolivar
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command crossed into Virginia here en route to capturing
Harpers Ferry.
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New Market
Monocacy
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Army of the Potomac and its commander, Gen. George B.
McClellan.
★ Battle of Shepherdstown – Site of fierce fighting on
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est one-day battle in American history on September l7, 1862.
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★ Antietam National Battlefield – The scene of the bloodi-
launched the first successful steam-propelled boat. Great
view of the Potomac, the home of Kyd Douglas, and the
ruins of the wartime bridge.
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the Battle of Antietam.
Harpers Ferry, Stonewall Jackson’s command crossed back
into Maryland here; Lee’s army crossed here after retreating
from Sharpsburg.
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Kennedy Farm
HARPERS FERRY NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
★ Keedysville – The town became a vast Union hospital after
★ Boteler’s Ford (C&O Canal NHP) – After capturing
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quarters here during the Battle of South Mountain.
Stonewall Jackson’s youngest staff officer.
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★ Crampton’s Gap – Although a Union division forced its
★ Williamsport (C&O Canal NHP) – Stonewall Jackson’s
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died fighting for the gap.
★ Grove Farm – Here President Abraham Lincoln visited the
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★ Fox’s Gap – Two generals – one Federal, one Confederate –
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end of the day on September 14, 1862.
here to revisit the battlefield and attend reunions.
Fox’s Gap
Sharpsburg
steeple served as a Union observation post during the Battle
of South Mountain on September 14, 1862.
way through the gap, the commander called a halt instead
of routing the Confederates here.
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★ Middletown (Central Maryland Heritage League) –
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Mountain and the Confederate-held gaps that became Union
objectives on September 14, 1862.
Gambrill
State Park
Washington
Monument
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Antietam
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★ Braddock Heights – Offers a great view of South
★ Antietam Station – Veterans disembarked from trains
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The First Virginia Cavalry at a halt,
during the Antietam Campaign.
famous ballad, a loyal old lady waved the Stars and Stripes
here and shamed Stonewall Jackson.
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vented from attending a special session near here in 1861.
★ Barbara Fritchie House – In John Greenleaf Whittier’s
Boonsboro
President Lincoln arrived at the B&O Railroad Station in
Frederick City to visit the Army of the Potomac.
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★ Frederick City Hall – Pro-secession legislators were pre-
★ Boonsboro – Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had his head-
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spoke from a railroad car platform to Frederick residents on
October 4, 1862.
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★ B&O Railroad Station – Here President Abraham Lincoln
South Mountain, CS Gen. Lafayette McLaws delayed the
Union advance by stretching his forces across the valley at
the foot of Elk Ridge.
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State Park
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★ Monocacy National Battlefield (Best Farm) – This is
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J.E.B. Stuart on September 8, 1862, this girls’ school also
served as a hospital to treat the wounded from a cavalry
action at Hyattstown.
To Washington D.C.
Darnestown