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MARYLAND CIVIL WAR TRAILS How to Use this Map-Guide This guide depicts a scenic 90-mile driving tour that follows the route taken by John Wilkes Booth as he attempted escape after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865. This guide also offers a collection of sites scattered throughout the southern region of the Chesapeake Bay. Follow the bugle trail-blazer signs to waysides that chronicle the day-to-day tale of America’s most infamous villain and explore the Civil War’s lesser-known but important sites. Along the way, explore the landscape while paddling a waterway or while hiking or biking a trail, and experience nature and Civil War heritage up close. Parks, trails, historic sites and museums offer an in depth look of the war on the home front, in the heat of battle and beyond the battlefield. Take a break in nearby Civil War cities and towns for dining, lodging, shopping and attractions. For additional Civil War Trails information, visit www.civilwartrails.org and download the Maryland Civil War Trails app from Apple or Google Play to discover Civil War history and fun things to see and do along the way. Tim Tadder, www.tadderphotography.com Beachcombing at Point Lookout State Park.

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John Wilkes Booth; half-length, standing, from the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration HH ESCAPE OF AN ASSASSIN HH

n the fall of 1864, the popular actor T.B. and then into Charles County. Their John Wilkes Booth arrived in South- exact route is uncertain, but their destina- ern Maryland, a haven for Confeder- tion was Dr. Samuel A. Mudd’s home about I ate sympathizers, with letters of three miles north of Bryantown. The doctor introduction from exiled Confederates in and Booth had met previously, and Mudd Canada and a scheme to kidnap President had introduced the actor to a leading Con- Abraham Lincoln. Booth soon gathered federate agent, Thomas Harbin, as well as recruits to assist him. Whether the Confed- John Surratt, Jr., a Confederate courier erate high command in Richmond, Virginia, and son of Mary Surratt. sanctioned the plan or Booth retaliated on his own for what he perceived as Lincoln’s harsh wartime policies is unclear. By April 1865, however, Booth had abandoned the kidnap plot in favor of assassination. On April 14, shortly after 10 p.m., Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head while the president watched a play at Ford’s The- atre in Washington, D.C. Booth fled over the Navy Yard Bridge into Southern Maryland. With fellow conspirator David Herold, he stopped about midnight at widow Mary E. Surratt’s tavern in the village Booth limps across the stage after shooting President Lincoln. of Surrattsville. She was then operating a boardinghouse in Washington, The fugitives arrived at the Mudd farm D.C., but a tenant at the tavern testified early in the morning of April 15, seeking help that Booth retrieved rifles, field glasses, for the broken leg that Booth had sustained and other supplies hidden there as part of in his escape. After setting the leg, Mudd the earlier kidnap scheme. The tenant also allowed the pair to rest in an upstairs bed- said that Surratt had been at the tavern as room. That afternoon, the doctor went into recently as the afternoon of April 14, and Bryantown, learned that it was occupied by had left instructions to have the equipment Federal troops, and that the search was on ready. His testimony was fatal to Surratt, for Lincoln’s assassin. Mudd returned home marking the first time that the federal gov- and sent Booth and Herold on their way. The ernment had executed and hung a woman. last time he saw them, they were headed in Booth and Herold did not linger at the the direction of Zekiah Swamp. Mudd was tavern, but headed south to the village of later sentenced to prison for assisting Booth. HH ESCAPE OF AN ASSASSIN HH

However, the pair did not seek refuge in the swamp. They made a wide arc around Bryantown and were guided to the home of Samuel Cox (near the present-day town of Bel Alton) shortly after midnight on April 16. Cox sent them to a dense pine thicket where they hid for several days, receiving food and news- papers from Thomas Jones, a Con- federate signal agent, and Franklin Robey, Cox’s overseer. On the night of April 20, Jones led the fugitives to the Potomac River where he had hidden a rowboat. He directed them to Mathias Point on the Vir- ginia shore, but for some reason the pair rowed to Nanjemoy Creek in Maryland, where they rested before trying again the next night. Once in Virginia, Booth and Herold crossed the Rappahannock River and found shelter at Richard Garrett’s farm. There, early in the morning of April 26, 1865, Federal troops found them hiding in a tobacco barn. Herold surrendered as ordered, but Booth refused. To force him out, the barn was set on fire. The soldiers could see Booth through the slats in the barn, and Sgt. Boston Corbett shot him in the back of the neck. Soldiers dragged Booth onto the porch of the nearby farmhouse, where he died a few hours later. Herold was returned to Washington, D.C., where he stood trial and suffered death on the gallows. Cox, Jones, and others associated with the Of those who helped Booth escape assassin’s flight were released after several through Maryland, only Herold, Mrs. weeks in jail. Jones wrote a book, J. Wilkes Surratt and Dr. Mudd were prosecuted. Booth (1893), about his experience. HHPOINT LOOKOUT HH

ore than a century ago, Point of sanitation contaminated the wells, and Lookout, with its peaceful sur- some men froze to death in tents, having roundings and fine bathing but one blanket and very little wood for fire. M beaches was a place of enjoy- More than 4,000 men died. ment for well-to-do Marylanders. Beginning The prisoners occupied themselves in 1861, however, the Civil War changed making trinkets they bartered, since money this pleasant retreat dramatically. Because was scarce. A school was organized to teach water bounds the point on two sides (the the “three Rs,” and church services were Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River), it held in an old building. By the time the was an ideal site for the federal government war ended, more than 52,000 prisoners had to construct a state-of-the-art hospital, passed through Camp Hoffman’s gates. earthen-walled fortifications, and the Today, a small section of the prison pen has North’s largest prisoner-of-war camp. been reconstructed where it once stood. A year after the war began, the fed- Three forts were erected to protect the eral government leased the Point Lookout point and prison from Confederate inva- Resort for an army hospital. Hammond sion. The earthen walls of one, Fort Lincoln, General Hospital, built like the spokes of a remain intact, and the rest of the fort has wheel, received its first wounded patients been reconstructed. on August 17, 1862. Early in 1863, a small In 1965, a century after the war ended, number of prisoners were confined to the Maryland’s Park Service created the 1,046– hospital grounds. Many of them were South- acre Point Lookout State Park. The Civil ern Marylanders accused of assisting the War story is told in the park’s Visitor Center Confederacy. Today, most of the hospital exhibits. site lies underneath the Chesapeake Bay. Sketch of entrance to the prison camp at Point Lookout. Soon after the capture of thousands of Confederates at the Battle of Gettysburg, construction began on Camp Hoffman, which was capable of holding 10,000 prisoners of war. As the war progressed and prisoner exchanges ceased, the camp became overcrowded, with more than 20,000 men confined by June 1864. At the height of the war, the lack HHPRESERVING THE UNION HH

uring the Civil War, conflict was not confined to the battlefields; governments, as well as families, were divided. The federal government took drastic and controver- sial steps to keep Maryland in the Union, arresting newspaper editors and even D state and local officials suspected of Confederate sympathies. On May 26, 1862, as federal troops surrounded the Talbot County Courthouse in Easton, Deputy U.S. Marshal John S. McPhail and Special Officer John L. Bishop entered the courtroom and arrested Judge Richard Bennett Carmichael. The judge had been an outspoken opponent of the pres- ence of Federal troops at Eastern Shore polling places during local elections in 1861, which he believed intimidated voters. When Carmichael asked by what authority McPhail and Bishop disrupted the proceedings, they replied, “By the authority of the United States.” Carmichael resisted, and Bishop clubbed him repeatedly with a revolver butt until he lay bloody and unconscious on the courtroom floor. The 125 men of the 2nd Delaware Infantry Regiment then escorted the judge to a waiting steamer at Wye Landing. Prosecuting attorney Isaac C.W. Powell, a prominent Eastonian who was roughed up when he tried to help Carmichael, was also arrested and transported to Baltimore. During their six-month confinement at Forts McHenry, Lafayette, and Delaware, they were never formally charged. Carmichael twice wrote President Abraham Lincoln in protest but received no reply.

Talbot County Courthouse, Easton (right) Caroline County Courthouse (below) HH AFRICAN AMERICANS HH

hen President Abraham Lin- in Annapolis inspired more than 100 slaves coln issued the Emancipation to enlist. Most joined the 30th and 39th Reg- Proclamation, followed in iments and later served in the Wilderness W May 1863 by General Order Campaign, the Siege of Petersburg and the 143 establishing a U.S. Bureau of Colored Battle of the Crater, and the Capture of Troops (USCT), he sealed the fate of the Richmond. “peculiar institution” of slavery. Although African Americans from Maryland’s Maryland would not emancipate its 87,000 Eastern Shore also served with distinction; slaves for almost two more years, Maryland three of whom received the Medal of Honor. slaves liberated themselves by the thou- In Talbot County, the town of Unionville was sands to join free African Americans in the founded in 1867 by 18 USCT veterans whose United States Army and Navy. graves are located in the cemetery of St. Ste- Masters jailed slaves to prevent escape phens A.M.E. Church. In Kent County, more or recruitment by Union troops; those who than 400 blacks joined the USCT, and many fled risked reprisals on family members perished. Surviving veterans established an left behind, and those who were caught integrated Charles Sumner Post in Chester- were sometimes tortured or killed. town that served them and their fam- Even free Maryland blacks were ilies for more than a century. barred from enlisting until Harriet Tubman, born October 3, 1863, when the in Dorchester County, served USCT began recruiting in as a scout for the 2nd South Maryland. Slaveholders Carolina Volunteers. were offered compensa- Other African-American tion for any slave who women became nurses enlisted with or without and spies. Two sons of his master’s consent. Frederick Douglass, a Enlist they did. Talbot County native, Despite inequality in pay served as commissioned and rations, segregated officers. units, and extra danger In all, 8,718 Mary- on the battlefield—Con- land African Americans, federates sometimes both slave and free, massacred, wounded, and joined the USCT. Many captured black troops— “Once let the black man get upon others joined the U.S. African Americans his person the brass letter, U.S., Navy. After President enlisted, served with let him get an eagle on his button, Abraham Lincoln’s assas- honor, and fought in sig- and a musket on his shoulder and sination, USCT were nificant engagements. bullets in his pocket, there is no among those dispatched In February 1864, a power on earth that can deny that he to search the Southern USCT company encamp- has earned the right to citizenship.” Maryland countryside ment at St. Johns College Frederick Douglass for his killers. HH SPIES & SMUGGLERS HH

o keep Maryland from That autumn, she was confined in seceding when the Civil the Old Capitol Prison, on the War began in April present site of the U.S. T 1861, President Supreme Court, and then Abraham Lincoln ordered sent to Richmond. She Federal troops to occupy the spent time in Europe and state. He also suspended the wrote her memoirs, My writ of habeas corpus, and Imprisonment and the jailed suspected Confeder- First Year of Abolition ate sympathizers, including Rule at Washington. public officials, newspaper Greenhow sailed in a editors, and private citizens. blockade runner for North Had Maryland seceded, Con- Carolina in 1864, but the ship federate territory would have sank off Cape Fear and she surrounded Washington, D.C. drowned. She is buried in Wilm- Though many Maryland ington, N.C. men served in the U.S. Army, Rosatta Maria O’Neal Greenhow Another Maryland spy, thousands of others enlisted Olivia Floyd, conducted her in Confederate service. Southern partisans espionage activities from Rose Hill, her who stayed home conducted signal corps home in Port Tobacco, using her charm to operations, ran the federal blockade to extract information from Union officers. deliver vital supplies, and engaged in espi- After the war, she was the guest of honor onage. Southern Maryland was a hotbed of at a Confederate veterans’ reunion in “secesh” intrigue, and many famous Con- Kentucky. federate spies had ties to this region. Pro-Confederate residents of South- Perhaps the most famous Confederate ern Maryland not only gathered military spy, Rosatta Maria O’Neal Greenhow, known intelligence but also food, supplies, and as “Rebel Rose,” was born in Southern medicine. Sick and hungry Confederate Maryland about 1814. An antebellum social soldiers who slipped into Southern Mary- leader in Washington, D.C., Greenhow used land got help from sympathizers. Accord- her connections to elicit critical information ing to local tradition, young Catharine from federal officials and military figures. Hayden, known as the Angel of Chaptico, In July 1861, aided by another Marylander, provided Confederate soldiers with food Betty Duvall, Greenhow delivered a coded and medicine she obtained from her uncle, message detailing Union plans for the First a physician. She suffered an epileptic Battle of Manassas to Confederate Gen. seizure on Christmas Day 1872, fell into a Pierre G.T. Beauregard. Confederate presi- fireplace, and died the following day. For dent Jefferson Davis credited Greenhow years, her family received letters from with the ensuing victory. all over the South from veterans who had In August, federal officials placed her learned of her tragic death. She is buried under house arrest, but she continued to spy. at Christ Church in Chaptico. BALTIMORE

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ATLANTIC OCEAN H ESCAPE OF AN ASSASSIN H • Leonardtown – This old port town teemed with spies, intrigue, and blockade runners during the war. H Ford’s Theatre – John Wilkes Booth assassinated President • Piney Point – Blockade runners slipped supplies past U.S. Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. ships here. H Petersen’s Boarding House – Lincoln died here, across the Point Lookout State Park – In 1862, this popular resort was street from Ford’s Theatre. • leased by the U.S. government for construction of a major hospital H Surratt House Museum – Mrs. Mary E. Surratt’s tavern complex. A Confederate prison camp was established in 1863. where the assassination conspirators stored supplies. • Sotterley Plantation – Owned during the Civil War by well- H Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum – Dr. Mudd set Booth’s known Southern sympathizer, Dr. Walter Hanson Stone Briscoe. broken leg on April 15, 1865, and Booth spent the night here. • Camp Stanton – USCT were recruited and trained here. H Village of Bryantown – Mudd claimed that he first learned of Lincoln’s assassination here. • Welch Owens Memorial – Memorial to an Anne Arundel County native who was honored posthumously as a hero of the H St. Mary’s Church and Cemetery – This is where Mudd first Battle of Stephenson’s Depot. met Booth on November 13, 1864, and Mudd is buried here. Belair Mansion – Plantation of Southern sympathizer George H Port Tobacco – County seat during the war and home to • Cooke Ogle struggled to survive during the war. George Adzerodt, another assassination conspirator. Banneker-Douglass Museum (Annapolis) – This institution H Rich Hill – Booth and accomplice David Herold arrived at the • honors Maryland’s African-American heroes, Benjamin home of Samuel Cox on April 17, 1865, and are taken to a pine Banneker and Frederick Douglass. thicket to hide. U.S. Naval Academy Museum (Annapolis) – The museum, H Pine Thicket – Booth and Herold hid in a nearby pine thicket • on the campus of the U.S. Naval Academy, contains many Civil April 16–20, 1865. War artifacts. H Crossing the Potomac – Booth and Herold crossed the river near here on April 21, 1865. • State House (Annapolis) – Maryland General Assembly met here after 1861 and in 1864, passed a new constitution. H Mrs. Quesenberry’s – Home of the widow Quesenberry, a member of the Confederate Underground, who arranged fresh • Sandy Point State Park – William Evans, a slave here, joined horses for the two men. the USCT. H Cleydael – On April 23, 1865, Booth and Herold arrive at the H EASTERN SHORE SITES H home of Richard Stuart, who is unwilling to shelter them. H Port Royal – Booth and Herold passed through this port town • Chestertown Monument – Union and Confederate monument on their way to the Garrett Farm. to some of the men from Kent County who fought in the war. H Star Hotel – Union patrols captured one of Booth’s companions • Queenstown – Slaves escaped from their owners here to enlist here who led the troops to the Garrett Farm, ending the chase. in the U.S. Army. H Garrett Farm – Herold surrendered to U.S. Army troops here • Hillsboro – The great African-American leader, Frederick on April 26, 1865, but Booth was shot, pulled from the burning Douglass, once called this town home. barn, and soon died. • Greensboro – Pro-Union residents wrote to President Abraham Lincoln for help on September 13, 1862. H WESTERN SHORE SITES H • Caroline County Courthouse – Prominent Denton citizens • Greenmount Cemetery (Baltimore) – John Wilkes Booth and were arrested as suspected Confederate sympathizers. other notable Civil War figures are buried here. • Museum of Rural Life – Emancipation in Maryland and the • B&O Railroad Museum (Baltimore) – Civil War-era trains new constitution resulted from suspicious circumstances. and memorabilia are on display here. • Denton Wharf – Prisoners were taken from steamboats here. • Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore) – Civil War • Unionville – Slaves and free blacks from here served as USCT, artifacts are displayed here. then founded the community after the war. • Rowser’s Ford – On the night of June 27–28, 1863, Gen. J.E.B. • Talbot Courthouse – Monuments to Eastern Shore’s Stuart’s 5,000 cavalrymen crossed into Maryland here. Confederate soldiers and to abolitionist Frederick Douglass are • Darnestown Park – Part of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry, under located on courthouse grounds. Gen. Wade Hampton, captured mules and supplies heading • Linchester Mill – Two major “stations” on the Underground toward Washington, D.C. Railroad were located near here. • Gaithersburg – Gen. J.E.B. Stuart seized new mounts and • Federalsburg – This town was a smuggler’s center during supplies here on June 28, 1863. the war. • Old Rockville – Stuart occupied the town on June 28, 1863, • Trappe – A former USCT soldier founded an Emancipation Day and found both Confederate sympathizers and loyal Unionists. celebration here that still goes on. • Brookeville – On June 29, 1863, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart paroled • Dorchester Visitor Center – Hundreds of enslaved and free almost 400 prisoners here. black men from the Eastern Shore enlisted in the United States • Savage Mill – Near here, in April 1861, Union troops repaired Colored Troops. tracks of the B&O Railroad after Confederate sympathizers • Cambridge Cemetery – Wartime governor Thomas Holliday destroyed them. Hicks is buried here. • Fort Foote – Built during the Civil War to strengthen fortifica- • Old Trinity Church – Burial place of Anna Ella Carroll, tions around Washington, D.C. sometimes called an unofficial member of President Lincoln’s • Fort Washington – Overlooking the Potomac River, this fort Cabinet. was built in 1809. It was manned but never used during the war. • Bucktown – Harriet Tubman, escaped slave and Underground • Chaptico – This community was a hotbed of Confederate Railroad conductor, lived near here. sympathizers during the war. • Berlin – Isaiah Fassett, Maryland’s next-to-last surviving Civil • St. Clement’s Island — Potomac River Museum – War soldier, died here. The lighthouse survived an 1864 Confederate raid. Fortification Civil Store/Museum Darnestown Wa Dranesville (Seneca) Rowser’ entrance and crepe draped from windows. from draped crepe and entrance at posted guards Ford’s with Theatre Hotel Star HERNDON Freeman Court House Fairfax r 301 Park VIRGINIA BOWLING GREEN Fairfax Museum s Ford 112 Information orW National, StateorCountyPark Other CivilW Limited orNoPublicAccessSite Booth’ Driving RouteofBooth’ 66 s EscapeRouteSite VIRGINIA 190 ar T Port Royal 28 124 ROCKVILLE National ParkSer elcome Center rails Site 495 (Original Site) Garrett Farm

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