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★ Barnesville – Three Union infantry corps marched through
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this little town, June 26–28, 1863.
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★ Monocacy Aqueduct – Thousands of Federal soldiers marched
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the muddy towpath and crossed the Monocacy River here on
June 25-27, 1863.
★ Point of Rocks – This was a major crossing point between
Confederate Virginia and Unionist Western Maryland.
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Rose Hill
Cemetery
★ Jefferson – In late June 1863, many pro-Union residents
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welcomed the Federals with cheers and flowers.
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Pine Grove
Chapel
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Urbana
(Landon House)
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Sykesville
Hood’s
Mill
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Harpers Ferry
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Sugarloaf Mountain
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Hyattstown
Sugarloaf
Mountain
Licksville
(Tuscarora)
★ Union Bridge – Thousands of wounded Federals passed through
the town after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Stephenson
Depot
Clarksburg
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on June 29-30, 1863.
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Monocacy
Aqueduct
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Barnesville
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★ Mount Airy – On June 29, 1863, Union cavalry came through
in pursuit of Stuart’s cavalry.
★ Manchester – Site of Union army’s right flank on Pipe Creek
between June 28 and July 1, 1863.
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ate wagon train in a daring midnight raid.
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Darnestown
here on July 12, 1863.
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an artillery duel with Union cavalry.
★ Battle of Wagoners – On July 6, 1863, Imboden organized
Middleburg
his drivers and wounded to protect the Confederate wagon train
during an attack.
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enabling the Confederates to protect their avenue of retreat.
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★ Battle of Falling Waters – Confederates fought here to protect
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★ Brunswick – Union troops pursuing the Confederate army
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Dranesville
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Mt. Zion
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their retreat across the Potomac River on July 14, 1863.
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Signal Station
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Aldie Mill
★ Turner’s Gap – Meade established his headquarters here on
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★ Boonsboro – Site of July 8, 1863 cavalry battle.
★ Funkstown – On July 10, Stuart’s cavalry held off Union forces
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Fortification
Bel Air
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INVASION & RETREAT
The Plains
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• Clear Spring – Site of major Union encampment and signal
station throughout the Civil War.
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Alternate Route of Union Army Advance
the Union garrison refused to surrender.
• Folck’s Mill – On August 1, 1864, Union troops ambushed
Thoroughfare
Gap
Confederate cavalry sent to disrupt the railroad.
Driving Route of Union Army Advance
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To Culpeper
• Hancock – Stonewall Jackson shelled the town in 1862, when
Fairfax
Station
• Clarysville – Site of largest Civil War hospital complex in
Western Maryland.
• Altamont – Confederate Rangers attacked the B&O Railroad
Driving Route of Confederate Army Retreat
and Union Pursuit
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Other Civil War Trails Site
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and sent a captured locomotive careening toward Oakland.
Driving Route of Confederate Cavalry Advance
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St. Mary’s
Church
depot and site of 1864 Confederate raid.
Driving Route of Confederate Army Advance
Fairfax
Court House
Manassas National
Battlefield Park
• Cumberland – Home to Maryland’s second largest railroad
• Oakland – Confederates took control of the town for a day to
National, State or County Parks
disrupt Union troop and supply movements on the B&O Railroad.
destroyed the fort and burned the B&O Railroad bridge.
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Rowser’s Ford
(Seneca)
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★ Smithburg – On July 5, 1863, Stuart’s retreating cavalry fought
• Fort Alice – Confederates disarmed the Federal garrison,
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Oatlands
Goose Creek
Bridge
★ Jones’ Crossroads – The entrenched armies faced each other
★ WESTERN MARYLAND ★
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retreating Confederates, Union troops finally occupied the town
on July 12, 1863.
★ Front Royal – The Buck family entertained Lee at their home,
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after a long, miserable march through the mud and rain.
★ Hagerstown – After two sharp cavalry engagements with
Prettyman
House
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Dawsonville
Darnestown
Park
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★ Leitersburg – Union cavalry attacked retreating Confederates
crossed the Potomac River here.
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Edwards
Ferry
★ Monterey Pass – Union cavalry attacked a retreating Confeder-
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Peerless Rockville
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Poolesville
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Ball’s
Bluff
Higgins House
Court House Square
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Loudoun
Museum
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Kernstown
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Mile Hill
cost approximately 50,000 men killed, wounded or missing.
Gaithersburg
(Summit Hall Farm)
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★ Gettysburg – The battle that occurred here on July 1-3, 1863,
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White’s Ferry
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Purcellville
Beall-Dawson
House and
Stonestreet
Medical Museum
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Beallsville
★ Emmitsburg – A union supply depot and home of the Roman
Catholic Daughters of Charity, who helped tend to wounded
soldiers.
White’s
Ford
WINCHESTER
before the battle.
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★ Taneytown – Location of Meade’s headquarters in the days
Glen
Burnie
Museum
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June 29, 1863, followed closely by Union infantry.
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★ Union Mills – Confederate cavalry camped here the night of
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Stonewall
Jackson
HQ
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Comus
Monocacy
River Ford
★ Libertytown – On June 29, 1863, Union troops marched through
To Baltimore
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Little Bennett
Regional Park
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mented on the beauty of this town and surrounding countryside.
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Point of Rocks
Marriottsville
Cooksville
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ic, but paralyzed just now by the nearness of the rebel army.”
★ New Market – A wing of the Union army marched through here
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★ Uniontown – A New York soldier described the town as “patriot-
the town while being serenaded by the division’s glee club.
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Mount Olivet
Cemetery
between June 28 and July 1, 1863.
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Monocacy
National Battlefield
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Prospect
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B&O Railroad
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New Market
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Jefferson
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Back Door to
Harpers Ferry
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National Museum of
Civil War Medicine
Landon
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Park
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★ Thurmont – Union infantry passed by here on June 29, 1863,
★ Middleburg – Site of Union army’s left flank on Pipe Creek
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Barbara
Fritchie
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Union and Confederates marched by throughout the campaign.
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Kennedy
Farm
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Market & Patrick Streets
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★ Catoctin Furnace – Ironworks continued to operate even as
Burkittsville
Moler’s
Crossroads
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Gettysburg and on July 7, 1863, pursuing the Confederates.
City
Hall
Braddock
Heights
Crampton’s
Gap
North Market Street
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★ Lewistown – Saw Union troops on June 28, 1863, en route to
through here pursuing the Confederate army both before and
after the battle.
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Carroll County
Farm Museum
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Rose Hill
Manor
Central Maryland
Heritage League
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cavalry officers up four ranks to general.
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army’s large artillery reserve camped here in late June 1863.
★ Richfield – On June 28, 1863, Meade promoted three young
Walkersville
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Middletown
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Richfield
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Corbit’s Charge
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★ Rose Hill Manor – Home of Maryland’s first governor. The Union
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ent times in 1862, 1863 and 1864.
★ Old Frederick Road (Loy’s Station) – A Union corps marched
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Battle of
Shepherdstown
★ Prospect Hall – On June 28, 1863, Meade replaced Hooker
on the way to Gettysburg and pursued Confederate cavalry after
the battle.
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Depot
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Boteler’s Ford
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Courthouse
Libertytown
South Mountain
State Battlefield
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Gambrill
State Park
Fox’s Gap
Rumsey
Monument
gaps, important during the Gettysburg and Antietam campaigns.
as Commander of the Army of the Potomac.
Sharpsburg
Ferry Hill
★ Braddock Heights – Good views here of the South Mountain
★ Frederick – Troops from both sides occupied the town at differ-
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Antietam
Station
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B&O Railroad
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its way north, and Union cavalry passed through after the Battle
at Gettysburg.
Belle Boyd
House
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Washington
Monument
Meade’s HQ
at Turner’s Gap
New Windsor
Woodsboro
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Antietam
National
Battlefield
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Lewistown
Battle of
Boonsboro
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★ Poolesville – From here Hooker wired Gen. Henry Halleck in
Greenbrier
State Park
Union Bridge
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army, crossed the Potomac here June 24-25, 1863.
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Devil’s
Backbone
Park
Benevola
Meade’s
HQ
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tion chain between the Army of the Potomac and Washington, D.C.
★ Edward’s Ferry – Most of the Union army, pursuing Lee’s
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Jones’
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★ Manassas Junction – Site of a major Union supply depot.
★ Guilford Signal Station – A vital link in the Union communica-
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Falling Waters
(C&O Canal NHP
Tow Path Access Only)
Battle of Falling Waters
(Original Site)
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Uniontown
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Furnace
Middleburg
(Pipe Creek
Left Flank)
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Old Frederick Road
(Loy’s Station)
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house June 30 with Union infantry on his heels.
806 Catoctin
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Battle of
Wagoners
Cunningham Falls
State Park
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Delaware Cavalry here on June 29, 1863.
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★ Westminster – Stuart’s cavalry clashed with the Union’s 1st
Battle of
Funkstown
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Williamsport
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Fort Frederick
State Park
a plan to capture Union Gen. Hooker near here. It failed.
★ Middletown – The Union army marched through the town on
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★ Sykesville – On June 29, 1863, Confederate cavalry hatched
Soldiers at rest
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Cherry Run
during Confederate cavalry attack on June 19, 1863.
Manchester
(Pipe Creek
Right Flank)
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★ Cooksville – Union troops saved vitally important artillery
Union Mills
(Stuart Encampment)
Taneytown
Catoctin Mountain
National Park
Smithsburg
Cavalry Battle
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Shielding
the Army
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almost 400 prisoners here.
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Fairview
Mountain
Emmitsburg
(Union Encampment)
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Wilson’s
Store
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★ Brookeville – On June 29, 1863, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart paroled
Leitersburg
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and found both Confederate sympathizers and loyal Unionists.
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★ Old Rockville – Stuart occupied the town on June 28, 1863,
★ Union Mills – Stuart breakfasted here at the William Shriver
Crossing
the Mason
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Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s 5,000 cavalrymen crossed into Maryland here.
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Miller’s Farm
Springs
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J.E.B. STUART’S CAVALRY TOUR
Plumb
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★ Rowser’s Ford (Seneca) – On the night of June 27–28, 1863,
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Blue Ridge Summit
(Monterey Pass)
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their flags as they officially enter the “North.”
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Western
Port
Hanover
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Village of
Stateline
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Gettysburg
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Rouzerville
Waynesboro
Oakland
★ Mason and Dixon Line – Enthusiastic Confederates unfurl
Fairfield
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the Confederates from observation by the Union Army.
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BRIDGE
★ Shielding the Army – South Mountain, to the east, shielded
Altamont
Hancock
Constitution
Park
Cresaptown
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Fort
Alice
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June 15, 1863, and its “Wagon Train of Misery” retreated through
here after Gettysburg.
Mill
Clarysville Inn
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Garrett County
Visitor Center
Cumberland
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★ Williamsport – Confederate Army’s invasion began here on
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Middleburg and Upperville as Lee moved north beyond the
mountains.
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★ Cavalry Screening – Opposing cavalry units clashed at Aldie,
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To Carlisle
and Harrisburg
Chambersburg
(Not to Scale)
Battle of
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Manassas
Junction
Miserable muddy march
To Brandy Station
Information or Welcome Center
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