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|   A.P. Hill’s March “Not a moment too soon” - Bakerton WV
in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites About two o’clock in the afternoon of September 17, 1862, Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill’s 3,000-man division began crossing the Potomac River at Boteler’s Ford posted by:  Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 9/1/2020 last visited: never |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| Woodbine Cemetery in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This section of the cemetery is known as tne soldier cemetery. posted by: 79scouts location: Virginia date approved: 7/28/2011 last visited: 7/23/2020 |
 view gallerySW72.3 km | Court Square & Springhouse Temporary Prison Camp - Harrisonburg VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The courthouse occupied the northern portion while the jail, clerk’s office, and springhouse were in the southern section. Plank fences surrounded both yards. These enclosures occasionally were used as holding pens for prisoners during the conflict. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/17/2020 last visited: 7/23/2020 |
 view gallerySW72.4 km | McNeill’s Rangers “Hurah for McNeal” - Harrisonburg VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Harrisonburg is associated with the exploits of McNeill’s Rangers, a famous Confederate partisan unit. In 1862, John Hanson McNeill, a native of Hardy County in present-day West Virginia, recruited men for Co. E, 18th Virginia Cavalry. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: 7/23/2020 |
 view gallerySW72.4 km | 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 gallerySW72.4 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 gallerySW72.6 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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| 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 galleryE73.2 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 galleryE73.2 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 galleryE73.4 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 galleryNE74.4 km | Camp Hopkins-Memorial to a Friend - Hedgesville WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites In December 1862, Union Gen. Benjamin F. Kelley stationed detachments of the 54th Pennsylvania and 1st West Virginia Infantry regiments here to guard and repair the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a main supply route between the Ohio River and the national capital region. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/14/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW74.4 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 |
 view galleryNE74.5 km | Hammond House-Headquarters and Hospital - Hedgesville WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Dr. Allen C. Hammond constructed this Greek Revival-style house about 1838. During the Civil War, both sides used it periodically for a headquarters or a hospital. The war ruined Hammond, a strong Southern sympathizer. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/22/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE74.7 km | Grove Farm at Antietam Battlefield - Sharpsburg MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites President Lincoln visited Gen. George McClellan at Antietam Battlefield two weeks after the September 17, 1862, battle. The posted coordinates will take you to the historical marker for Grove Farm where they met.
posted by:  HaricotVert_52 location: Maryland date approved: 8/27/2009 last visited: 7/6/2009 |
 view galleryNE74.7 km | 1862 Antietam Campaign Lee Invades Maryland - Sharpsburg, 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: 4/12/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE75 km | Antietam Station - Sharpsburg MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Antietam Station, once known as Sharpsburg Station, was where many of the veterans and families came to town to visit the Cemetery and commemorate the 1862 Battle of Antietam. posted by: HaricotVert_52 location: Maryland date approved: 8/27/2009 last visited: 7/6/2009 |
 view galleryNE75.2 km | Battle of Falling Waters-Stuart’s Surprise - in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Here at Stumpy’s Hollow on the morning of July 2, 1861, Confederate Lieutenant Colonel J.E.B. Stuart captured a Union infantry company almost single-handedly. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/21/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE75.5 km | Battle of Falling Waters Crockett-Porterfield House - Falling Waters WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On the morning of July 2, 1861, Federal troops under General Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River from Maryland and marched toward Martinsburg. Confederate Colonel Thomas J. Jackson’s command marched from Camp Stephens. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 8/22/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryE76.6 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 |
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| Brady's Crossing (Cresaptown) - Cresaptown, Maryland in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The Brady's Crossing CWDT Marker is located on Darrows Lane in the village of Cresaptown, Allegany County, Maryland posted by: outdoorboy34 location: Maryland date approved: 5/12/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE77.7 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 galleryE78.1 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 |
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