 view gallery S51.8 km
|   “Gallant” Pelham’s Last Days-The Virginia House and Shackelford House - Culpeper VA
in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Confederate cavalry chief Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and Maj. John Pelham, the commander of Stuart’s Horse Artillery, frequented the Virginia House Hotel and often visited the Shackelford family across the street. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery E52 km
| Oatlands-Civil War Comes to Oatlands - Leesburg VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites As Confederate forces gathered to protect Leesburg, Elizabeth G. Carter, the widowed mistress of Oatlands, wrote in her journal on October 17, “Our troops falling back on Centerville -Mississippi Regt’s encamped at the Mill – Solders here all daY." posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/22/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryS52.1 km | Culpeper Court House (2) in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Two, side by side Civil War Trail signs located at the Culpeper, VA railroad station and visitor center. posted by: garmin_geek location: Virginia date approved: 3/29/2009 last visited: 1/18/2014 |
 view gallery SE52.3 km
| Brandy Station Battlefield - St. James Church in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The largest cavalry battle of the Civil War was fought at Brandy Station, VA. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 7/6/2011 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE52.8 km | Battle Of Brandy Station - Fleetwood Hill in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The largest cavalry battle was fought at Brandy Station. Fleetwood Hill was the site of Confederate headquarters and the fight for control seesawed back and forth. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 7/6/2011 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE52.9 km | Graffiti House at Brandy Station in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The Graffiti House is named for the signatures, messages, and drawings that soldiers scrawled on the walls during the Civil War. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 4/11/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryS53.3 km | Battle of James City-Opening Battle of the Bristoe Station Campaign - Leon VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On October 10, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, anticipating an offensive that became known as the Bristoe Station Campaign, sent a division of Confederate horsemen led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart north from Madison on a raid. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE54.2 km | Rappahannock Station in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The Union army captured a strategic railroad crossing at the Rappahannock River in late 1863. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 7/4/2011 last visited: never |
 view gallery N54.9 km
| Fight at Bloomery Gap-A Futile Affair - Bloomery WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites A militia brigade under Col. Jacob Sencendiver, 67th Virginia Militia, occupied Bloomery Gap to threaten the railroad and Union-occupied territory near the Potomac River. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/12/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery NE57.6 km
| The Greenback Raid-Mosby's Men Strike It Rich - Shenandoah Junction WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites During the Civil War, this was Brown’s Shop Crossing on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In October 1864, as Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s army was beating Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early’s army in the Shenandoah Valley posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/21/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryS57.6 km | Cedar Mountain in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson narrowly escaped defeat when his troops encountered an isolated Union division in the Battle of Cedar Mountain. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 9/3/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE58.9 km | Jackson at Harpers Ferry - Bolivar, WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites A civil war trail discovery site in Bolivar, West Virginia. posted by:  bluesnote location: West Virginia date approved: 9/8/2018 last visited: 9/8/2018 |
 view galleryE58.9 km | Leesburg From Paradise to Peril - Leesburg, Virginia in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Marker describing the changing conditions in Leesburg during the Civil War located in small plaza next to Loudoun Museum. posted by:  BruceS location: Virginia date approved: 11/19/2013 last visited: 6/10/2017 |
 view galleryE58.9 km | 1862 Antietam Campaign Lee Invades Maryland - Leesburg, Virginia in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Marker giving history General Lee passing through this area and moving into Maryland during the Civil War. Marker located in small plaza adjacent to Loudoun Museum in Leesburg, Virginia. posted by: BruceS location: Virginia date approved: 11/19/2013 last visited: 6/10/2017 |
 view galleryE59.2 km | Loudoun County Court Square - Leesburg, Virginia in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Marker giving insight into the Civil War in Leesburg, Virginia. posted by: BruceS location: Virginia date approved: 4/14/2014 last visited: 6/10/2017 |
 view galleryNE59.5 km | Swann's Castle - Leesburg, Virginia in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Site of Confederate encampment during the Civil War near Leesburg, Virginia. posted by: BruceS location: Virginia date approved: 5/6/2014 last visited: never |
 view galleryE59.5 km | Manassas Battlefield, Manassas VA. in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites In the summer of 1861, enthusiastic volunteers in colorful uniforms gathered to fight the first major land battle of the war. Confident that their foes would turn and run, neither side anticipated the smoke, din and death of battle. posted by: Lat34North location: Virginia date approved: 9/16/2007 last visited: 6/2/2020 |
 view galleryE60.4 km | The Battle of Bristoe Station in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Bristoe Station was the stage of the climatic battle of the Bristoe Campaign in late 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee's last offensive of the war. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 8/18/2012 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE60.5 km | Kelly's Ford ~ Cavalry and Coffee in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Kelly's Ford was a strategic crossing location of the Rappahannock during the Civil War. posted by: garmin_geek location: Virginia date approved: 5/2/2011 last visited: 6/2/2011 |
 view galleryNE60.8 km | Harpers Ferry National Historical Park - Harpers Ferry, WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Harpers Ferry National Historical Park IN West Virginia is a historic town in the metro DC area. posted by: saopaulo1 location: West Virginia date approved: 6/1/2009 last visited: 12/26/2017 |
 view galleryNE62.4 km | Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park - Leesburg, Virginia in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Park encompassing Civil War battlefield and national cemetery north of Leesburg, Virginia posted by: BruceS location: Virginia date approved: 11/16/2013 last visited: 6/10/2017 |
 view galleryN63.6 km | Civil War Martinsburg-Focus of Contention - Martinsburg WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Martinsburg, strategically located on the Valley Turnpike, (present day U.S. Route 11) and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was a major transportation center and the northern gateway to the Shenandoah Valley. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/25/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryN63.9 km | Berkeley Hotel-Railroad Raids Survivor - Martinsburg WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This is one of the last surviving antebellum buildings in the area. It was constructed shortly after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reached Martinsburg in 1842. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/25/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryN64.1 km | Belle Boyd House-Home of a Spy - Martinsburg WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Isabelle “Belle” Boyd, the Confederate spy, lived here during part of her childhood. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/25/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE64.5 km | 1862 Antietam Campaign Lee Invades Maryland - Dickerson MD in Civil War Discovery Trail 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: 4/6/2020 last visited: 6/14/2015 |
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