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|   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: 3/28/2023 last visited: 3/28/2023 |
 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: 3/27/2023 last visited: 3/27/2023 |
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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: 4/15/2012 last visited: 10/18/2014 |
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| 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: 3/26/2023 last visited: 3/26/2023 |
 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: 3/25/2023 last visited: 3/26/2023 |
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| 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: 9/13/2020 last visited: 7/19/2022 |
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| 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: 3/24/2023 last visited: 3/25/2023 |
 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: 3/23/2023 last visited: 3/25/2023 |
 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: 9/13/2020 last visited: 10/2/2021 |
 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: 3/26/2023 last visited: 3/27/2023 |
 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: 3/23/2023 last visited: 3/25/2023 |
 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: 3/23/2023 last visited: 3/25/2023 |
 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: 3/23/2023 last visited: 3/25/2023 |
 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: 6/13/2022 |
 view galleryNE50.4 km | Baltimore Riot Trail-Combat on Pratt Street - 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: 3/23/2023 last visited: 3/25/2023 |
 view galleryNE50.4 km | Civil War Magazine - Baltimore, MD in U.S. Civil War Sites A magazine and ammunition storage dating back to the Civil War at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. posted by: bluesnote location: Maryland date approved: 8/26/2021 last visited: never |
 view galleryW50.4 km | Mosby-Forbes Engagement - Aldie, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites Located along the eastern edge of Mt. Zion Historic Park. posted by: flyingmoose location: Virginia date approved: 7/15/2021 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW50.5 km | New Market Roads to Gettysburg - New Market MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Gen. John Sedgwick's VI Corps, which guarded the army's right flank, moved by here to Mount Airy and Westminster, reaching Manchester on June 30. The next day, the corps began an epic 34-mile march to Gettysburg. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/26/2023 last visited: 4/1/2023 |
 view galleryNE50.5 km | Fort McHenry - Baltimore, MD in U.S. Civil War Sites During the Civil War, Fort McHenry was used by the north for a prison for Confederate soldiers. posted by: bluesnote location: Maryland date approved: 1/7/2016 last visited: 8/14/2022 |
 view galleryNE50.5 km | Baltimore Riot Trail-Death at President Street Station - Baltimore MD in U.S. Civil War Sites In 1861, as the Civil War began, Baltimore secessionists hoped to stop rail transportation to Washington and isolate the national capital. On April 19, the 6th Massachusetts Regiment arrived here. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/23/2023 last visited: 3/25/2023 |
 view galleryNE50.7 km | Baltimore Riot Trail-Flag Waving at Fawn Street - Baltimore MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Capt. Albert S. Follansbee quickly ran into trouble as he led four companies of the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment to Camden Station by President and Pratt Streets on April 19, 1861. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/23/2023 last visited: 3/25/2023 |
 view galleryNE50.7 km | Baltimore Riot Trail-Barricade at Jones Falls Bridge - Baltimore MD in U.S. Civil War Sites While Capt. Albert S. Follansbee waited at President Street Station with the last four companies of the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, horses pulled several carloads of soldiers to Camden Station. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/23/2023 last visited: 3/25/2023 |
 view galleryW50.9 km | Civil War Winter Encampment Sites 1861-1862 - Leesburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites Site where Confederate soldiers spent the winter of 1861-1862 near Leesburg, Virginia. posted by:  BruceS location: Virginia date approved: 5/7/2014 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE51 km | Colonel Charles Marshall C.S.A.-Baltimore, MD in U.S. Civil War Sites A Blue Plaque has been placed on the former home of Colonel Charles Marshall C.S.A. - 1830-1902- Chief of Staff to General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 9/28/2022 last visited: 1/28/2023 |
 view galleryNW51 km | Carrollton Manor-Green Corn March - Adamstown MD in U.S. Civil War Sites On Saturday, September 6, 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia was spread along the entire length of Buckeystown Turnpike all the way to Frederick. The soldiers camped in the fields on either side of the road on the evenings of September 5-6. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/27/2023 last visited: 3/27/2023 |
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