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

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1862, and devoured fields full of green corn. P ★ Buckeystown Park – Hungry Confederates ate freshly A baked bread made with flour milled here. 68 Gen. McClellan entering the town of Frederick. ★ Hyattstown – Several cavalry engagements occurred here, September 8-11, 1862. ★ ALT Urbana (Landon House) – The site of a ball held by Gen. 40 J.E.B. Stuart on September 8, 1862, this girls’ school also To Gettysburg served as a hospital to treat the wounded from a cavalry action at Hyattstown. Greenbrier R 66 ★ Monocacy National Battlefield (Best Farm) – This is State Park E the likely site where the famous Lost Order (Special Orders 11 V FREDERICK I No. 191) was found, containing Gen. Robert E. Lee’s cam- R paign strategy. 81 Y C 15 ★ A B&O Railroad Station – Here President k President Lincoln arrived at the B&O Railroad Station in e C e spoke from a railroad car platform to Frederick residents on r Frederick City to visit the Army of the Potomac. October 4, 1862. C Boonsboro O m N a 40 ★ t Frederick City Hall – Pro-secession legislators were pre- e O i t vented from attending a special session near here in 1861. 65 n M A ★ C&O C Barbara Fritchie House – In John Greenleaf Whittier’s ana Gambrill The First Virginia Cavalry at a halt, l NHP Washington famous ballad, a loyal old lady waved the Stars and Stripes Monument State Park 34 34 here and shamed . during the Antietam Campaign. Business Antietam 17 ★ Braddock Heights – Offers a great view of South National Turner’s Gap Mountain and the Confederate-held gaps that became Union B&O Railroad Battlefield Keedysville Roundhouse objectives on September 14, 1862. DOGST MONUME P

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M Middletown of South Mountain on September 14, 1862. Ferry Hill Grove Farm Central Maryland ★ Turner’s Gap – The Confederates still held the gap at the HISTORIC NATIONAL ROAD C T AN R Heritage League Braddock AL E end of the day on September 14, 1862. RD Boteler’s Ford G O Heights Original Site R 67 ★ Washington Monument – The used this stone SHEPHERDSTOWN D tower as a signal station during the Antietam Campaign. RIV Rumsey ER RD Christ ★ Fox’s Gap – Two generals – one Federal, one Confederate – Monument 17 Reformed 40 died fighting for the gap. Battle of Church FREDERICK Shepherdstown ★ TOWNSE Crampton’s Crampton’s Gap – Although a Union division forced its ND R D Gap way through the gap, the commander called a halt instead D RD R TT Y D O D KN R N R of routing the Confederates here. R LA E P E A WEST VIRGINIA F G V S D ★ O R R Burkittsville – After the Battle of Crampton’s Gap on Moler R E 75 G P 144 September 14, 1862, this picturesque village became a blood- Crossroads R A UT H N T 355 soaked hospital center. B S Burkittsville 70 A E New Market K H E C ★ R Back Door to Harpers Ferry – Following the Battle of T O South Mountain, CS Gen. Lafayette McLaws delayed the N Union advance by stretching his forces across the valley at RD Monocacy National Battlefield the foot of Elk Ridge. Kennedy Farm HARPERS FERRY NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK D ★ R Boonsboro – Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had his head- Y Back Door to R R E Harpers Ferry

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C H R R A E I R ★ Antietam Station – Veterans disembarked from trains V E P K Urbana R ER A S B Schoolhouse F Maryland (Landon House) here to revisit the battlefield and attend reunions. ER Buckeystown M RY ichael’ Ridge Bolivar R s M D Heights i ★ ll Grove Farm – Here President Abraham Lincoln visited the Heights R 80 Camp Hill C D &O C P E R Army of the Potomac and its commander, Gen. George B. anal NH I V McClellan. R P O T C 80 Buckeystown O M C he Park ★ Ferry Hill – This was the home of Henry Kyd Douglas, A sap 15 eak Stonewall Jackson’s youngest staff officer. Loudoun P e and O 340 R O hio ★ E Heights T Ca al Park Williamsport (C&O Canal NHP) – Stonewall Jackson’s V Harpers Ferry O nal Nation oric I 340 M A al Hist 270 command crossed into Virginia here en route to capturing R National Historical Park C R I Harpers Ferry. H V E R 355 CHARLESTOWN R A E ★ Boteler’s Ford (C&O Canal NHP) – After capturing O V D I Harpers Ferry, Stonewall Jackson’s command crossed back R N 671 H Carrollton into Maryland here; Lee’s army crossed here after retreating A N A Manor from Sharpsburg. S H E O Hyattstown D

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S Regional Park 20, 1862. Mountain ★ Rumsey Monument – Dedicated to James Rumsey, who Monocacy Natural launched the first successful steam-propelled boat. Great Resources Area Comus view of the Potomac, the home of Kyd Douglas, and the Licksville CO D MUS ruins of the wartime bridge. (Tuscarora) R RD Monocacy IM ANTIETAM NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD A ★ Battle of R Shepherdstown – Site of fierce fighting on River Ford H P E Clarksburg September 19-20, as Lee’s army crossed back into Virginia 109 T and Union forces struck the Confederate rear guard. M D R D E ★ BA R Moler Crossroads – Elements of the Confederate army RN D F ES N H O VILL U OUT E R H marched near here en route to Sharpsburg. M D D RD L CY O OCA OLD BALTIMORE R ★ Harpers Ferry National Historical Park – Strategic MON Barnesville D communication and supply depot at the confluence of the e k Monocacy e 15 Dickerson Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. r Aqueduct C 28 m H ST The a W 4TH ST E 4T t FREDERICK Cornfield ie ★ OTHER CIVIL WAR SITES★ nt A VIRGINIA 109 D • Monocacy National Battlefield – On July 9, 1864, R W 3RD ST E3RDST LE 65 D IL MONTGOMERY Union Gen. Lewis Wallace’s stubborn defense delayed for R V D S R L

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RECORD ST E T E UTT H S W CHURCH ST Hall LA IT T NE E’S O Ferry on Oct. 16. W Battlefield FE Historical Society R N R Overlook 34 7 Y Poolesville • B&O Railroad Roundhouse – Important Martinsburg of Frederick County RD R facility destroyed by Stonewall Jackson’s troops in 1862. D Rebuilt after the war. Sharpsburg Antietam Mile Hill National W PATRICK ST EPATRICK ST • Belle Boyd House – Restored circa 1853 home of the 107 Dawsonville famous Confederate spy. It is now home to the Berkeley Co. Cemetery Loudoun Ball’s D Museum R Historical Society and Historic Landmarks Commission. H Barbara National Museum of A Y R R Bluff C& R P Civil War Medicine Antietam Fritchie O E Ball’s Bluff Battlefield & National Cemetery – On E k Ca F • R ee na S r l S 28 Station House C N D Oct. 21, 1861, Confederates routed Union forces here and F ll WA H R E o ED RD P rr S F A R Burnside’s Bridge a ER C R W R Y 355 R D Y D drove them over the bluff into the Potomac River. E To Washington D.C.

R D LEESBURG • Manassas National Battlefield Park – The site of two major battles: the first large-scale fight of the war (July 21, WEST ALL SAINTS ST EAST ALL SAINTS ST Edwards Darnestown 1861) and one of Lee’s greatest victories (Aug. 29–30, 1862), B&O Railroad Ferry after which he decided to invade the North. Station 15 7 • Chantilly – After the Second Battle of Manassas, Jackson attacked the retreating Federal army here. In a confused W SOUTH ST E SOUTH ST S CARROLL ST S EAST ST engagement during a thunderstorm, Union Gens. Philip To Oatlands and Kearney and Isaac Stevens were killed. Manassas NBP To Chantilly