H ANTIETAM CAMPAIGN SITES H H Loudoun Museum – Antietam Campaign Tour begins here, where Lee rested the Army of Northern Virginia before invading MASON AND DIXON LINE Maryland. H Mile Hill – A surprise attack led by Confederate Col. Thomas Munford on Sept. 2, 1862, routed Federal forces. H White’s Ferry – This modern ferry is two miles south of White’s Ford. (cash fee) H White’s Ford (C&O Canal NHP) – Here the major part of HERITAGE AREA the Army of Northern Virginia forded the Potomac River into Maryland on September 5-6, 1862, while a Confed­erate band played “Maryland! My Maryland!” H Poolesville – Site of cavalry skirmishes on September 5 and 8, 1862. 81 11 H Beallsville – A running cavalry fight passed through town on To Cumberland, Md. Campaign Driving Route September 9, 1862. 40 H Barnesville – On September 9, 1862, opposing cavalry units Alternate Campaign Driving Route chased each other through town several times. HAGERSTOWN Campaign Site H Comus (Mt. Ephraim Crossroads) – Confeder­ate cavalry fought a successful rearguard action here, September 9-11, 1862, Other Civil War Site to protect the infantry at Frederick. The German Reformed Church W ASHINGTON in Keedysville was used as a National, State or County Park H Sugarloaf Mountain – At different times, Union and Confeder- hospital after the battle. ate signalmen atop the mountain watched the opposing army. 40 I L R A Information or Welcome Center T H Monocacy Aqueduct (C&O Canal NHP) – Confederate troops Williamsport tried and failed to destroy or damage the aqueduct on September (C&O Canal NHP) South Mountain N 4 and 9, 1862. Recreation Area A I

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September 8-11, 1862. ALT 40 H Urbana (Landon House) – The site of a ball held by Gen. To Gettysburg J.E.B. Stuart on September 8, 1862, this girls’ school also served as a hospital to treat the wounded from a cavalry action at Greenbrier R 66 President Lincoln arrived at the B&O Railroad Station in Hyattstown. State Park E Frederick City to visit the Army of the Potomac. H Monocacy National Battlefield (Best Farm) – This is the 11 V FREDERICK I likely site where the famous Lost Order (Special Orders No. 191) R 81 Y was found, containing Gen. Robert E. Lee’s campaign strategy. C 15 A H k Westminster – Confederate Col. Thomas L. Rosser, 5th Virginia e C e Cavalry, occupied the town overnight on September 11, 1862, r C Boonsboro O before rejoining the army at South Mountain. m N a 40 t e O i H B&O Railroad Station – Here President Abraham Lincoln t 65 n M spoke from a railroad car platform to Frederick residents on C& A O Ca October 4, 1862. The First Virginia Cavalry at a halt, nal NHP Washington Gambrill during the Antietam Campaign. Monument State Park H Kemp Hall – Pro-secession legislators were prevented from 34 34 Business attending a special session here in 1861. Antietam 17 National Turner’s Gap H Market & Patrick Streets – The only known photograph of B&O Railroad Battlefield Keedysville Roundhouse Confederate troops marching under arms was taken near here DOGST RENO MONUM P

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ST 107 • Kennedy Farm – In this simple log house leased by abolitionist COUNCILST Newcomer 9 28 John Brown in the summer of 1859, he laid his plans, gathered his D 34 Kemp AR House T White’s Ferry W NE RECORD HURCHS T UT H S W CHURCH ST EC T LA IT T associates, and launched his raid on Harpers Ferry on Oct. 16. Hall NE E’S O FE W R N Battlefield R • B&O Railroad Roundhouse – Important Martinsburg 7 Y Poolesville RD R Overlook Market D facility destroyed by Stonewall Jackson’s troops in 1862. & Patrick Rebuilt after the war. SHARPSBURG Antietam Streets Mile Hill National W PATRICKST EPATRICK ST • Belle Boyd House – Restored circa 1853 home of the famous 107 Dawsonville Confederate spy. It is now home to the Berkeley Co. Historical Cemetery Loudoun D Museum Ball’s R Society and Historic Landmarks Commission. H National Museum of Y A Barbara Bluff C R R & R P Civil War Medicine O E Antietam F E Fritchie k Can Ball’s Bluff Battlefield & National Cemetery – On Oct. 21, R • e al S S e 28 Station Cr NH D F House ll EDWARD P R 1861, Confederates routed Union forces here and drove them over E 355 ro S FE A R r R Burnside’s Bridge a RY W R C RD D the bluff into the Potomac River. Y E To Washington D.C. R LEESBURG D • Manassas National Battlefield Park – The site of two major WEST ALL SAINTS ST EAST ALL SAINTS ST battles: the first large-scale fight of the war (July 21, 1861) and Edwards Darnestown one of Lee’s greatest victories (Aug. 29–30, 1862), after which he B&O Railroad Ferry Station 15 decided to invade the North. 7

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Seneca HHHHHHHH LEE INVADES MARYLAND HHHHHHHH H EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION H

he Battle of Antietam, on September 17, 1862, present seems to be the most propitious time since lthough President Abraham itself actually freed no slaves, it was the culmination of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s the commencement of the war for the Confederate Lincoln personally opposed encouraged them to liberate themselves. first invasion of the North. As Lee’s Army Army to enter Maryland.” Lee also wrote, “The army slavery, he was no abolitionist. Problems remained in the border T of Northern Virginia (about 40,000 men) is not properly equipped for an invasion of an enemy’s A Yet in 1862 he slowly yielded states. Maryland, for example, had stayed advanced into Maryland, other Confederate forces territory. It lacks much of the material of war, is feeble to pressure from men such as Frederick with the Union but held many slaves. moved into Kentucky, northern Mississippi, and the in transportation, the animals being much reduced, Douglass to broaden the war aims of the In December 1862, in Lincoln’s annual Kanawha River valley of western Virginia. Never again and the men are poorly provided with clothes, and in United States. He awaited a Union military message to Congress, he proposed during the war would so many Confederate armies be thousands of instances are destitute of shoes. Still, victory, knowing that he needed Northern that “every State, wherein slavery now on the offensive at the same time. we cannot afford to be idle.” Meanwhile, Union Gen. support for such a change. exists, which shall abolish the same After Lee’s victory at the Second Battle of George B. McClellan was preparing his 85,000-man The victory at Antietam (Sharpsburg) therein … shall receive compensation Manassas (Bull Run), he wrote to Confederate Army of the Potomac to oppose Lee. on September 17, 1862, gave Lincoln his from the United States.” (In reality, President Jefferson Davis on September 3, “The While camped in Frederick, Maryland, a few opportunity. Five days later, he issued the such compensated emancipation did not days later, Lee realized that the 12,000-man Federal preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, occur.) Lincoln also wrote some loftier garrison at Harpers Ferry threatened his lines of thereby transforming supply, communication, and retreat. To operate safely the war for the north of the Potomac River, Lee divided his army Union into a war for into four parts to neutralize the threat. He directed freedom as well. The Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson to envelop Proclamation stated Harpers Ferry with more than 25,000 men, assigned that “all persons held Gen. D.H. Hill’s division to guard Turner’s Gap near as slaves within any Boonsboro, and ordered Gen. James Longstreet to state or designated lead the rest of the army, about 10,000 strong, to part of a state, the Hagerstown, Maryland, near the Mason-Dixon Line people whereof shall and Pennsylvania. then be in rebellion Lee outlined his plan in Special Orders 191 and against the United had copies distributed to his senior subordinates. States shall be then, When the army marched to South Mountain the next thenceforward, day, a copy addressed to Hill was left behind, wrapped and forever free.” around three cigars. On September 13, a Union In the final version soldier found it and presumably enjoyed the cigars. promulgated on The wrapper soon reached McClellan, who exclaimed January 1, 1863, Lincoln on Antietam battlefield days after he issued the that he held the Confederate battle plan in his hands! Lincoln opened the way for blacks to bear preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Hill forever after denied having received or lost the arms by declaring that “such persons of “Lost Orders.” He produced his own set, in Jackson’s suitable condition, will be received into handwriting, as proof. the armed service of the United States to words: “We—even we here—hold the McClellan forced the Confederates into holding garrison forts, positions, stations and other power, and bear the responsibility. In actions in the South Mountain gaps. Lee concentrated places, and to man vessels of all sorts in giving freedom to the slave, we assure his forces at Sharpsburg, northeast of town on said service.” This provision allowed about freedom to the free—honorable alike in Sharpsburg ridge. Two days later the armies met in the 200,000 Americans of African descent to what we give, and what we preserve. We D.H. Hill’s copy, Special Orders 191, first page bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history. serve in the United States Army and Navy shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last Courtesy National Park Service Courtesy Library of Congress during the war. While the proclamation best, hope of the earth.”

HARPERS FERRY SOUTH MOUNTAIN HH THE AFTERMATH OF WAR HH TRANSPORTATION H MEDICINE H AND LOGISTICS

fter crossing into Maryland early in September 1862, Confederate Gen. Robert arge Civil War armies needed A E. Lee divided the Army of the logistical support of Northern Virginia into four parts. He thousands of wagons and sent Stonewall Jackson with most of the L teams, traveling forges, army to capture Harpers Ferry, while Lee caissons, and ambulances, as well as led the remainder over South Mountain, cooks, teamsters, blacksmiths, farriers, Harpers Ferry, 1862. using it as a screen to help keep Gen. doctors, and hospital stewards. George B. McClellan’s pursuing Army of The Union Army of the Potomac ent by Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Potomac at bay. But then the Federals drew more than 100,000 pairs of shoes ome 18,440 soldiers were capture Harpers Ferry and found a dropped copy of Lee’s orders near and boots, 93,000 pairs of trousers, and wounded in one day of fight- secure Confederate lines of the Monocacy River, and it became even Pry House – Courtesy Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area Sharpsburg’s Main Street, 1862, just a few days after 10,000 blankets from advanced supply ing at Antietam on Septem- Scommunication during the more critical for the Confederates to hold the Battle of Antietam. depots at Frederick and Hagerstown ber 17, 1862, and another Maryland invasion, Gen. Thomas J. the South Mountain passes until Jackson between September 12 and October 25, S 3,122 in the Battle of South Mountain “Stonewall” Jackson approached completed his mission and rejoined uring the Civil War, the Potomac sides roamed the region stealing horses 1862. The army used more than 3,000 three days before. Transporting, Harpers Ferry from three directions them. The two armies clashed in a day- River became the boundary and other livestock and committing wagons and on October 1 had 22,493 operating on, and caring for this with 24,000 soldiers in mid-September long battle on September 14 at Fox’s, between the United States of mayhem. Besides property damage, horses and 10,392 mules. enormous number of wounded sol- 1862. Jackson and 14,000 men swept Crampton’s, and Turner’s Gaps, giving DAmerica and the Confederate civilians sometimes suffered personal Conversely, soldiers in the diers presented a challenge never Union troops at Martinsburg into Jackson just enough time to secure States of America. Perhaps 500,000 Union assaults. Confederate partisans on a raid Confederate Army of Northern Virginia before faced. A doctor reported, the Harpers Ferry trap. Gen. John Harper’s Ferry and return to Lee. and Confederate troops and their animals to Sharpsburg early in 1863 shot and killed lacked food, shoes, and uniforms, as “There is not a barn, or farmhouse, G. Walker’s 2,000-man division marched through and camped in the a local citizen, and during the summer of well as effective small arms, cannons, or store, or church, or schoolhouse secured Loudoun Heights, while Gen. region, placing a tremendous strain on the 1864, a drunken Union soldier accidentally and ammunition. They also probably between Boonesville [sic], and Lafayette McLaws climbed Maryland environment, the lives of local residents shot and killed a young girl at Sandy Hook. had no more than 16,000 horses to pull Sharpsburg … and Smoketown that Heights on September 13; the Federals and the economy. After the Battle of Antietam, a wagons and other conveyances. is not gorged with wounded.” there soon withdrew to Harpers Ferry. Throughout the war, Confederate soldier wrote, “few were the houses [near Both armies foraged across the The surviving wounded were Jackson, atop School House partisans mounted small raids along the Sharpsburg] that had not been pierced countryside. A Maryland newspaper taken to hospitals in Frederick or Ridge, used the terrain effectively to border, and gangs of deserters from both by shot or shell.” Union Gen. George B. reported, “The region of the county Baltimore. In Frederick alone, 29 position his artillery and troops. On McClellan made the Pry family home his between Sharpsburg and Boonsboro hospitals functioned in public build- Civilians under fire. the night of September 14, however, headquarters; damages to the farm and has been eaten out of food of every ings. The U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1,400 Union cavalrymen escaped house exceeded $2,400 and included the description. The two armies ... have established in July 1861, helped oper- across the Potomac River. The next loss of 900 bushels of wheat and 20 acres of swept over it and devoured everything ate hospitals and distribute supplies. day, the remaining Union garrison ripe corn. Pry, ruined by the occupation, within reach.” Although medical practices on Camp Hill and Bolivar Heights eventually left Sharpsburg. made great advances during the Civil surrendered nearly 12,500 men, 73 Later the following summer, a writer War, the germ theory of infection was cannon, 11,000 small arms, and 200 reported that “… farms have been terribly unknown then. Surgeons operat­ed wagons—the largest capitulation devastated. Fences have been destroyed, on wounded soldiers in unsanitary of U.S. troops during the Civil War timber cut down, embankments thrown up, conditions with unsterilized instru- and the largest in American history ditches dug, wheat, corn, and cloverfields ments. An amputee had a 65 percent until the fall of the Philippines in destroyed, the whole presenting a scene chance of surviving surgery, but only WWII. Jackson soon hastened his men of desolation and destruction painful a 10 percent chance of surviving toward Sharps­burg, Maryland. to behold.” infection if it occurred afterward. Courtesy Library of Congress

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