 view gallery SE99.9 km
|   Massaponax Church
in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Union Gen. Grant and his staff held a conference in Massaponax Church after leaving the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield. posted by:  La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 6/3/2012 last visited: never |
 view gallery E101.1 km
| Smithsonian Museum of American History - Washington, D.C in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This is one of many museums along the Washington National Mall. posted by:  bluesnote location: District of Columbia date approved: 3/21/2016 last visited: 3/21/2016 |
 view gallerySE101.4 km | Plantations on Guinea Station Road in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Some of the old homes Gen. Grant and the Union army passed in 1864 as they moved south to Guinea Station, are still standing. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 6/3/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryE102.5 km | Ulysses S. Grant Memorial - Washington, DC in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The Grant Memorial sits at the feet of the Capitol building. It honors President Grant. posted by: saopaulo1 location: District of Columbia date approved: 6/2/2009 last visited: 10/12/2013 |
 view galleryE102.7 km | Lincoln Cottage - Washington DC in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites President Lincoln's Cottage was where Abraham Lincoln escaped the heat and bustle of Washington, D.C., from June to November of the Civil War years 1862 through 1864.
posted by: HaricotVert_52 location: District of Columbia date approved: 4/15/2009 last visited: 7/13/2013 |
 view galleryE102.7 km | Brookeville Prisoners Paroled - Brookeville MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On June 28, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart left Rockville with three cavalry brigades, 125 captured Union supply wagons, and more than 400 military and civilian prisoners, arriving in Brookeville that night. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 4/6/2020 last visited: 4/15/2020 |
 view gallery NE103 km
| Mount Airy-Under the Barrels - Mount Airy, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites During the Civil War, Co. K, 14th New Jersey Infantry, guarded the railroad and National Road at Mount Airy. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/10/2020 last visited: 5/2/2020 |
 view galleryNE104.3 km | Libertytown Hot, Humid, and Worn Out - Libertytown MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On June 29, 1863, the Army of the Potomac's II Corps, commanded by Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, broke camp south of Frederick near the Monocacy River, marched into Frederick, and turned eastward on the road to Liberty (Libertytown). posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 4/6/2020 last visited: 5/2/2020 |
 view gallerySE107.7 km | Guinea Station - Woodford, Virginia in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites It was at the Chandler Farm at Guinea Station that Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson died on May 10, 1863. posted by: Sneakin Deacon location: Virginia date approved: 8/27/2010 last visited: 4/13/2004 |
 view galleryNE111.4 km | Gettysburg Campaign Invasion & Retreat - Cooksville MD in Civil War Discovery Trail 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: 4/6/2020 last visited: 4/15/2020 |
 view galleryNE111.4 km | Cooksville Saving the Guns - Cooksville, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites When Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart led his cavalry division north across the Potomac River into Maryland in June 1863, about 400 Federals and civilians were captured and then paroled in Brookeville. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 4/6/2020 last visited: 4/15/2020 |
 view gallerySE111.5 km | John Wilkes Booth Escape of an Assassin - Port Tobacco MD 20677 in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites From the Eastern Shore to the suburbs of Washington, eastern Maryland endured those strains of civil war in ways difficult to imagine today. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/10/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery SW111.8 km
| Plumb House - Waynesboro, Virginia in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The Plumb House was built between 1802 and 1806, during the time of Thomas Jefferson's presidency. It was caught in the middle of the Battle of Waynesboro on March 2, 1865, when a small Confederate force under Jubal Early was defeated by Philip Sheridan's Union troops. posted by: macdonr location: Virginia date approved: 8/27/2006 last visited: 6/10/2018 |
 view galleryNE113 km | Middleburg Meade's Pipe Creek Plan - Keymar MD in Civil War Discovery Trail 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: 4/6/2020 last visited: 5/2/2020 |
 view galleryE113.8 km | Surratt Tavern Confederate Safe House - Clinton MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Owned and operated by the ardently pro-Southern Surratt family, this building was used by Confederate agents as a safe house during the Civil War. Built in 1852, the structure was a tavern, hostelry and post office. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 4/12/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryE113.8 km | John Wilkes Booth Escape of an Assassin - Clinton MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylanders’ hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and families at odds in Maryland and faraway battlefields. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 4/12/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE114.3 km | Union Bridge - Reynolds’ Last Journey - Union Bridge, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Union Gen. John E. Reynolds was killed at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 while directing his command along the Chambersburg Turnpike in the early fighting. His body was carried to a house in town posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 4/12/2020 last visited: 5/2/2020 |
 view gallerySE116.5 km | Pine Thicket “the instrument of his punishment” - Bel Alton MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice, David A. Herold, fled Washington for Southern Maryland, a hotbed of Confederate sympathizers. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/11/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE117.2 km | Sykesville-Capturing Joe Hooker - Sykesville, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Before dawn on June 29, several former area residents guided Stuart’s column north from Cooksville. At Old Frederick Road (present-day State Rte. 99) the force divided, and elements ranged east to Sykesville and Marriottsville. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/10/2020 last visited: 3/15/2020 |
 view galleryNE117.2 km | New Windsor Village by Moonlight - New Windsor, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites That night, the exhausted men and horses, wrote a New York cavalryman, passed through “a small but beautiful village New Windsor. It was about 10 o’clock when we arrived there. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 4/8/2020 last visited: 5/3/2020 |
 view gallerySE117.6 km | Rich Hill The Fugitives Seek Shelter - Bel Alton MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites After leaving Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's house on April 15, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, and his accomplice David E. Herold avoided Zekiah Swamp and made a wide arc around the village of Bryantown. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/11/2020 last visited: never |
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| Gettysburg Campaign Invasion & Retreat - Oakland, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail 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: 3/29/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW118.1 km | Oakland - Oakland, Maryland in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The Oakland Civil War Discovery Trail Marker is located at the restored Oakland Train Depot on East Liberty Street in the Town of Oakland, Garrett County, Maryland posted by: outdoorboy34 location: Maryland date approved: 5/10/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE119.6 km | Crossing the Potomac Off into the Darkness - Newburg MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice, David A. Herold, fled Washington for Southern Maryland. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/11/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW119.7 km | Fort Alice-Railroad Bridge Destroyed - Oakland MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On April 26, 1863, during the Confederate occupation of Oakland, a detachment of Confederate Capt. John H. McNeill's partisan rangers attacked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge here over the Youghiogheny River. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/19/2020 last visited: never |
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