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|   Hardesty-Higgins House Banks's Headquarters - Harrisonburg VA
in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This was the home of Harrisonburg’s first mayor, Isaac Hardesty, an apothecary. Elected in 1849, Hardesty served until 1860. His Unionist sympathies compelled him to leave for Maryland after the Civil War began. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/17/2020 last visited: 7/23/2020 |
 view gallerySW78.2 km | Warren-Sipe House Home and Hospital - Harrisonburg VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This was the home of Edward T.H. Warren, a Harrisonburg attorney. As a lieutenant in the Valley Guards, a Rockingham County militia company, Warren attended the trial and execution of John Brown posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/17/2020 last visited: 7/23/2020 |
 view gallerySW78.2 km | Harrisonburg Female Academy in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This marker is part of the North Carolina Civil War Discovery Trail. posted by: 79scouts location: Virginia date approved: 7/29/2011 last visited: 7/23/2020 |
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| Historic Cemeteries - Oakton, Virginia in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Civil War Trail site at Flint Hill & Oakton Church of the Brethren. posted by:  flyingmoose location: Virginia date approved: 7/27/2020 last visited: never |
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| Barnesville “Before night our town changed hands five times!” - Barnesville MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On the evening of September 5, 1862, Gen. Wade Hampton’s and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s Confederate cavalry brigades bivouacked around Barnesville. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/22/2020 last visited: 5/21/2020 |
 view galleryNE78.4 km | Barnesville “... a bad night of it...” - Barnesville, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail 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: 3/22/2020 last visited: 5/21/2020 |
 view galleryNE78.9 km | Sugarloaf Mountain A Signalman’s Lot - Stronghold MD in Civil War Discovery Trail 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: 3/22/2020 last visited: 5/21/2020 |
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| Hartwood Church in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites During the Civil War, Federal troops occupied and desecrated this church, but were subsequently captured by a Confederate squadron who surprised them while they slept. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 5/23/2010 last visited: never |
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| Engagement at Great Cacapon-Struggle in the Snow - Great Cacapon WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Before you is the village of Great Cacapon. After driving off the Federal garrison in Bath (present day Berkeley Springs) on January 4, 1862, Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson sought to tear up the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/22/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW79.5 km | Chestnut Ridge Death of Ashby - Harrisonburg VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On June 6, 1862, the vanguard of Union Gen. John C. Frémont’s force, pursuing Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s army south up the Shenandoah Valley, reached this point near Harrisonburg. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/15/2020 last visited: 7/23/2020 |
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| War in Grant County-Engagement at Johnson Run - Petersburg WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites During the Civil War, loyal Unionist Home Guard companies patrolled Hardy County (now Grant County) to defend it against Confederate incursions. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/29/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE80.6 km | 19th Century Backpacker -The Civil War Soldier - Middletown, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites An unnamed citizen of Frederick City said the following of the Confederates he had beheld marching through his hometown: “I have never seen a mass of such filthy strong-smelling men. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/10/2020 last visited: 7/15/2011 |
 view galleryNE80.6 km | 1862 Antietam Campaign-Lee Invades Maryland - Middletown, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/10/2020 last visited: 7/15/2011 |
 view galleryNE80.6 km | Battle at South Mountain-A Natural Barrier - Middletown, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The Battle of South Mountain erupted on September 14, 1862, when elements of the Union army tried to drive the Confederate rear guard from Crampton’s, Fox’s, and Turner’s Gaps. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/10/2020 last visited: 7/15/2011 |
 view galleryNE80.6 km | Turner's Gap - Boonsboro, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Civil War Trails and other markers located at and near the South Mountain Inn dot the hillside in this Civil War town. Also home to the Washington Monument...the original one. posted by: Math Teacher location: Maryland date approved: 8/12/2011 last visited: 12/8/2015 |
 view galleryN80.6 km | 1862 Antietam Campaign - Lee Invades Maryland - Falling Waters, WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Marker recounting the movement of Gen Lee's armies into MD, culminating in the Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day in American history. posted by: jiggs11 location: West Virginia date approved: 8/14/2016 last visited: 5/6/2019 |
 view galleryE80.8 km | Darnestown-Confederate Visit - Darnestown, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On June 25-27, 1863, the Federal Army of the Potomac used two temporary pontoon bridges to cross the Potomac River from Virginia back into Maryland at Edwards Ferry. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/19/2020 last visited: 7/4/2020 |
 view galleryNE81.1 km | Gettysburg Campaign and Boonsboro - Lee's Headquarters - Boonsboro, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The two markers at this location within Boonsboro describe the travels of two of Lee's campaigns-the Antietam Campaign and the Gettysburg Campaign. posted by: NorStar location: Maryland date approved: 11/19/2014 last visited: 7/16/2020 |
 view galleryNE81.1 km | Council of War - Should We Attack? - Boonsboro, Maryland in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Civil War Discovery marker at Devil's Backbone County Park near Boonsboro, Maryland. posted by:  BruceS location: Maryland date approved: 4/12/2014 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE81.3 km | Central Maryland Heritage League - Middletown. MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The Maryland Civil War program has identified this structure as an official Trails site, marking it with interpretives, and making it as the second site on the Trails tour of this town. posted by: Math Teacher location: Maryland date approved: 8/19/2011 last visited: 7/15/2011 |
 view galleryNE81.6 km | Buckeystown Park-Soldiers’ Shortcake - Buckeystown MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On the south end of this park, the road from Urbana to Buckeystown crossed the Monocacy River over a stone bridge. Some of the Confederate troops camped here on September 6, 1862. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 3/20/2020 last visited: 5/21/2020 |
 view galleryNE81.9 km | Washington Monument State Park - Boonsboro, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On the Appalachian Trail, deep in the woods of South Mountain lies the first memorial dedicated to George Washington in the United States and an important Maryland Civil War Trails historic site. posted by: Math Teacher location: Maryland date approved: 8/12/2011 last visited: 12/4/2015 |
 view galleryNE82.1 km | Mt. Ephraim Crossroads Sharpshooters Hold the Line - Dickerson, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail 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: 3/27/2020 last visited: 5/21/2020 |
 view galleryNE82.1 km | 1862 Antietam Campaign Lee Invades Maryland - Dickerson MD in Civil War Discovery Trail 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: 3/29/2020 last visited: 5/21/2020 |
 view gallerySE82.4 km | Chancellorsville Battlefield in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Part of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, the battle that took place here in early May 1863 is regarded by some as Robert E. Lee's greatest victory. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 7/24/2007 last visited: 4/25/2014 |
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