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|   Beallsville Squabble at the cemetery: Whose flag flies today? - Beallsville MD
in U.S. Civil War Sites On September 9, 1862, the running engagement between Illinois, Indiana, and Virginia cavalry units that began the day before in Poolesville continued in Beallsville. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/27/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
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| Edwards Ferry Strategic Crossing - Poolesville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/25/2023 last visited: 03/26/2023 |
 view galleryNW41.4 km | Barnesville “… a bad night of it…” - Barnesville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/27/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
 view galleryNW41.5 km | 1862 Antietam Campaign Lee Invades Maryland- Dickerson MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/28/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
 view galleryNW41.5 km | Mt. Ephraim Crossroads Sharpshooters Hold the Line - Comus MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/28/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
 view galleryNW42.3 km | Hyattstown Uninvited Guests - Hyattstown MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/29/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
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| Lansdowne Christian Church-Hull Memorial - Halethorpe MD in U.S. Civil War Sites This church is a monument to one Civil Wary veteran’s love for his comrades. Charles W. Hull and his wife, Mary A. Hull, gave the land and the building as a memorial to the men who fought to preserve the Union. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/03/2023 last visited: 03/30/2023 |
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| Sykesville-Capturing Joe Hooker - Sykesville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Stuart soon learned that Gen. Joseph Hooker had been relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac the day before at Frederick and might return to Washington on a special train about 10:30 a.m. that day. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/26/2023 last visited: 03/26/2023 |
 view galleryNW44.4 km | Sugarloaf Mountain A Signalman’s Lot - Dickerson MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/28/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
 view galleryNW45.5 km | White’s Ford-Crossing the Potomac - Dickerson MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/27/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
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| Lincoln in Annapolis - Annapolis, MD in U.S. Civil War Sites President Abraham Lincoln visited Annapolis, MD in February 1865 on his way to join Secretary of State William Seward in a meeting with the Confederate peace commissioners. posted by:  WayBetterFinder location: Maryland date approved: 04/15/2012 last visited: 10/18/2014 |
 view galleryN46 km | Mount Airy-Under the Barrels - Mount Airy MD in U.S. Civil War Sites During the Civil War, Co. K, 14th New Jersey Infantry, guarded the railroad and National Road at Mount Airy. Pine Grove Chapel, built in 1846 and first called Ridge Presbyterian Church, served as a barracks. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/26/2023 last visited: 03/26/2023 |
 view galleryNW46 km | Monocacy Aqueduct Too Tough To Crack - Dickerson MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/25/2023 last visited: 03/26/2023 |
 view galleryW46.3 km | Stone House Battlefield Landmark - Manassas VA in U.S. Civil War Sites This building links today’s landscape to the battlefield scene. The roadbeds have not changed; thousands of soldiers noticed the Stone House as they marched through this strategic intersection. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 07/19/2022 |
 view galleryNE46.8 km | Crimea Mansion-The Arrest of Ross Winans - Baltimore MD in U.S. Civil War Sites On May 11, 1861, Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's troops occupied the railroad depot southwest of Baltimore at Relay, where a spur of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's main line turned south to Washington. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/24/2023 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
 view galleryNW47.2 km | Gettysburg Campaign Invasion & Retreat - Dickerson MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/03/2023 last visited: 04/16/2023 |
 view galleryNW47.2 km | White’s Ferry-Invasion or Liberation? - Dickerson MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/03/2023 last visited: 04/16/2023 |
 view galleryNW47.2 km | 1862 Antietam Campaign Lee Invades Maryland - Dickerson MD in U.S. Civil War Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/03/2023 last visited: 04/16/2023 |
 view galleryNE47.6 km | Camp Carroll From Plantation to Federal Camp - Baltimore MD in U.S. Civil War Sites In April 1861, in the first bloodshed of the Civil War, a crowd of Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore attacked the 6th Massachusetts Infantry as it passed through the city en rout to Washington. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/23/2023 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
 view galleryW48 km | The Unfinished Railroad - Manassas VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Stonewall Jackson set up his defensive line along a two mile section of these cuts and fills, which were originally grading for the Independent Line of the Manassas Gap Railroad. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW48.3 km | Landon House From Hospitality to Hospital - Urbana MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Gen. J.E.B. Stuart hosted a dance here at the academy for Confederate cavalrymen and local ladies. The 18th Mississippi Cavalry’s regimental band provided the music. They converted the building to a field hospital when wounded men arrived. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/26/2023 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
 view galleryNE48.9 km | Baltimore & Ohio Railroad The Mount Clare Shops in U.S. Civil War Sites The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Mount Clare Shops is a large industrial complex. Because of their strategic importance, the shops were among the first sites in Baltimore that the U.S. Army secured when the Civil War began. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/23/2023 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
 view galleryNE49.9 km | Federal Hill Building the Fort - Baltimore, MD in U.S. Civil War Sites On the evening of May 13, 1861, U.S. General Benjamin E. Butler’s troops occupied Federal Hill and brought their guns to bear on Baltimore. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/23/2023 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
 view galleryNE50.1 km | Baltimore Riot Trail "Keep back … or I Shoot" - Baltimore MD in U.S. Civil War Sites On April 19, 1861, Confederate sympathizers attacked the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as it changed trains en route to Washington, which the secessionists hoped to isolate. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/23/2023 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
 view galleryNE50.2 km | USS Constellation - Baltimore, MD in U.S. Civil War Sites The USS Constellation was used part of a blockade of all ports of the Confederacy, ordered by President Lincoln. In addition, during the civil war, the Constellation captured several slave ships. posted by: bluesnote location: Maryland date approved: 12/23/2018 last visited: 06/13/2022 |
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