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|   Middleburg-Meade's Pipe Creek Plan - Keymar MD
in U.S. Civil War Sites On June 29, 1863, Union Gen. George G. Meade ordered the Army of the Potomac to Pipe Creek to counter any move toward Washington or Baltimore by Gen. Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and to engage it in battle. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/03/2023 last visited: 04/22/2023 |
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| Medal of Honor Recipients-Burkittsville, MD in U.S. Civil War Sites In July 1862 Congress authorized the president to present medals to soldiers of the United States for gallant and meritorious service. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2017 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Troup Light Artillery - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Organized in 1858 as the National Artillery, this unit changed its name to the Troup Light Artillery in honor of the former Georgia governor George W. Troup. It became a part of Cobb’s Legion when the war began. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Padgett’s Field: Confederate Last Stand - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites On September 14, 1862, this area was an open field belonging to George W. Padgett. A wooden, rail fence lined the road on the east. A low, stone wall bordered the field to the west. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Burial: A Most Disagreeable Task - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites The treatment of soldiers killed in action depended on which army held the battlefield after the guns fell silent. At South Mountain a few men from each Union regiment were assigned to burial details. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | The Stage is Set - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites On the evening of September 13, 1862, Confederate cavalry under Brigadier General Wade Hampton and Colonel Thomas Munford occupied the Crampton’s Gap/Burkittsville vicinity. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Bartlett Leads the Way - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Colonel Joseph J. Bartlett, the Commander of the Second Brigade of Franklin’s First Division, found himself in a curious position. As a brigade commander, Bartlett chose both the field across which Franklin’s Corps would attack. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Sixth Army Corps (C.P.4) - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites The Sixth Corps consisted of two Divisions commanded by Major Generals H. W. Slocum and W. F. Smith. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Between September 4th and 7th, 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia (C.P.1) - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Between September 4th and 7th, 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, Commanding, crossed the Potomac near Leesburg, and occupied Frederick, Maryland. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws' Command (C.P.2) - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites McLaws’ Command consisted of Kershaw’s, Barksdale’s, Semmes’ and Cobb’s Brigades of his own Division and R. H. Anderson’s Division of six Brigades-Wilcox’s, Mahone’s, Featherston’s, Armistead’s, Wright’s and Pryor’s. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Crampton’s Pass Tablet C.P. 3 - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites (September 14, 1862) Upon the approach of the Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac, from Jefferson, Col. T. T. Munford, Commanding Cavalry Brigade, prepared to dispute its advance through this Pass. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | First New Jersey Brigade - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Late in the afternoon the brigade advanced from the fields north and west of Burkittsville, charged up the mountain, carried this point and followed the enemy to the west foot of the mountain. Loss in the brigade 40 killed, 134 wounded. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | War Correspondents Memorial Arch-Walking Tour Stop 7 - Burkettsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites This stone Arch, the culmination of Townsend's architectural endeavors was built in 1896 as a permanent memorial to newspaper correspondents, artists, and photographers of the Civil War. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 09/23/2023 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | The Maryland Campaign of 1862 - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites On September 4, 1862, General Robert E. Lee, hoping to shorten the war by winning a decisive victory on Northern soil, crossed the Potomac River into Maryland. Lee planned to draw the Army of the Potomac through South Mountain into Pennsylvania. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | The Lost Orders - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites No other document of the Civil War has generated so much controversy as Lee's Special Orders No. 191. These “Lost Orders” detailed the movements of Lee’s army for the operation against Harpers Ferry. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 06/22/2023 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Mell Rifles & Troup Light Artillery - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites The Mell Rifles, Co. D, Cobb’s Legion Infantry, was raised in Athens, GA. in July 1861, by Patrick Hues Mell, Baptist minster and Vice Chancellor of the University of Georgia. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 09/23/2023 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | George Alfred Townsend A Man and His Mountain - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites None of the structures you see here in Crampton’s Gap existed during the battle on September 14, 1862. George Alfred Townsend constructed all the stone buildings and walls, as well as the Correspondents’ Arch, between 1884 and 1896. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/25/2023 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | 1862 Antietam Campaign Lee Invades Maryland - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites On September 17, at the battle of Antietam, the two armies clashed in the bloodiest single day in American history and suffered some 23,000 casualties. Lee soon retreated across the Potomac, ending his first invasion of the north. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/25/2023 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Battle for Crampton’s Gap “Sealed With Their Lives” - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites The Battle of South Mountain struck Crampton’s Gap late in the afternoon of September 14, 1862, when Union Gen. William B. Franklin finally ordered an attack against Confederate Gen. Lafayette McLaws’s force here. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/25/2023 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
 view galleryNW71.6 km | Cobb’s Brigade McLaw’s Division C.S.A./Lt. Col. Jefferson M. Lamar & Cobb's Georgia Legion - Burkittsville MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Side 1: At 1 P.M. on September 14, 1862, Cobb’s Brigade under Gen. Howell Cobb of Athens, GA. marched from Sandy Hook to Brownsville at the west foot of South Mountain. Side 2: Col. Thomas R.R. Cobb (brother of Howell Cobb) organized Cobb’s Legion in August 1861. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 09/26/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
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| Stafford Civil War Park - Stafford, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites Located east of Route 1 at the end of Dilger Road. posted by:  flyingmoose location: Virginia date approved: 04/12/2023 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW72.1 km | Brentmoor Spilman-Mosby House - Warrenton VA in U.S. Civil War Sites John Singleton Mosby bought the house from Keith in 1875. Mosby gained fame during the Civil War for his daring exploits behind Union lines. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/22/2023 last visited: 06/22/2023 |
 view galleryNW72.1 km | Capture of Harper's Ferry No. 5 - Harpers Ferry, WV in U.S. Civil War Sites One of 5 tablets depicting the events of the Civil War in Harpers Ferry. posted by: bluesnote location: West Virginia date approved: 06/15/2021 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
 view galleryNW72.1 km | Capture of Harper's Ferry No. 4 - Harpers Ferry, WV in U.S. Civil War Sites One of 5 tablets depicting the events of the Civil War in Harpers Ferry. posted by: bluesnote location: West Virginia date approved: 06/15/2021 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
 view galleryNW72.1 km | Capture of Harper's Ferry No. 3 - Harpers Ferry, WV in U.S. Civil War Sites One of 5 tablets depicting the events of the Civil War in Harpers Ferry. posted by: bluesnote location: West Virginia date approved: 06/15/2021 last visited: 03/25/2023 |
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