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Brookeville Y Other Civil War Trails Site nearby pine thicket April 16–20, 1865. • Denton Wharf – Prisoners were taken from K E N T # Crossing the Potomac – Booth and Herold • Leonardtown – This old port town teemed steamboats here. 32 435 ANNAPOLIS National, State or County Park with spies, intrigue, and blockade runners DECATUR RD crossed the river near here on April 21, 1865. Unionville – Slaves and free blacks from here FO • RT during the war. E A VE # served as USCT, then founded the community 1 V U.S. Naval Academy . Mrs. Quesenberry’s – Home of the widow I-95 A Information or Welcome Center R Museum Quesenberry, a member of the Confederate • Piney Point – Blockade runners slipped after the war. O KING GEORGE ST Gaithersburg Welcome L 97 Y supplies past U.S. ships here. A Fort Underground, who arranged fresh horses for Centers T 295 (Summit Hall Farm) 95 • Talbot Courthouse – Monuments to Eastern 2 McHenry the two men. – In 1862, Shore’s Confederate soldiers and to abolitionist GLE • 124 NWO OD S Annapolis this popular resort was leased by the U.S. Savage T # Cleydael – On April 23, 1865, Booth and Frederick Douglass are located on courthouse Visitor D M O N T G O M E R Y D R government for construction of a major grounds. R Mill Y Herold arrive at the home of Richard Stuart, CLAY ST COLLEGE AVE N O 270 Center O J Darnestown 28 S R hospital complex. A Confederate prison camp State N E who is unwilling to shelter them. Linchester Mill – Two major “stations” on N P A T A P S C O R I V E R • Park 28 OW R 97 House R U 213 301 313 was established in 1863. B T the Underground Railroad were located near WEST ST MAIN ST # Port Royal – Booth and Herold passed 112 through this port town on their way to the • Sotterley Plantation – Owned during here. Naval Academy the Civil War by well-known Southern M Banneker- Garrett Farm. 95 ST Federalsburg – This town was a smuggler’s Old Rockville O Visitor Center Q U E E N • N Douglass ET sympathizer, Dr. Walter Hanson Stone Briscoe. TIC center during the war. ROCKVILLE (Multiple Trail Sites) RK # Star Hotel – Union patrols captured one of Rowser’s Ford EL Museum MA Camp Stanton – USCT were recruited and L • O Booth’s companions here who led the troops to Trappe – A former USCT soldier founded an (Seneca) A • VE trained here. 387 A N N E’ S the Garrett Farm, ending the chase. Emancipation Day celebration here that still 190 Eastern Neck k Spa Creek e Welch Owens Memorial – Memorial to an 2 National Wildlife re # Garrett Farm – Herold surrendered to U.S. • goes on. Sandy Point Refuge Bay County C Anne Arundel County native who was honored 18 Welcome Center e Army troops here on April 26, 1865, but Booth Dorchester Visitor Center – Hundreds of State Park 301 o posthumously as a hero of the Battle of • h was shot, pulled from the burning barn, and enslaved and free black men from the Eastern 97 E a AV A k Stephenson’s Depot. R D Dranesville HE c soon died. UC A Shore enlisted in the Colored BO M u 50 Chesapeake T S 309 Belair Mansion – Plantation of Southern Troops. 3 S • T Exploration Center Belair 301 Queenstown 213 Greensboro sympathizer George Cooke Ogle struggled to # WESTERN SHORE SITES # Cambridge Cemetery – Wartime governor HERNDON Mansion survive during the war. • Thomas Holliday Hicks is buried here. 295 50 Greenmount Cemetery – John Wilkes Booth ANNAPOLIS • Banneker-Douglass Museum – This 1 197 and other notable Civil War figures are buried • Old Trinity Church – Burial place of Anna institution honors Maryland’s African- • 450 480 here. Ella Carroll, sometimes called an unofficial American heroes, Benjamin Banneker and 50 member of President Lincoln’s Cabinet. Fort Marcy • B&O Railroad Museum – Civil War-era Frederick Douglass. Freeman 404 trains and memorabilia are on display here. Bucktown – Harriet Tubman, escaped slave WASHINGTON, D.C. 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n the fall of 1864, the popular actor John Wilkes Booth to rest in an upstairs bedroom. That afternoon, the doctor went ore than a century ago, Point of sanitation contaminated the wells, and arrived in Southern Maryland, a haven for Confederate into Bryantown, learned that it was occupied by Federal troops, Lookout, with its peaceful sur- some men froze to death in tents, having sympathizers, with letters of introduction from exiled Con- and that the search was on for Lincoln’s assassin. Mudd returned roundings and fine bathing but one blanket and very little wood for I federates in Canada and a scheme to kidnap President home and sent Booth and Herold on their way. The last time he M beaches was a place of enjoy- fire. More than 4,000 men died. Abraham Lincoln. Booth soon gathered recruits to assist him. saw them, they were headed in the direction of . ment for well-to-do Marylanders. Beginning The prisoners occupied themselves Whether the Confederate high command in Richmond, Virginia, Mudd was later sentenced to prison for assisting Booth. in 1861, however, the Civil War changed making trinkets they bartered, since sanctioned the plan or Booth retaliated on his own for what However, the pair did not seek refuge in the swamp. They this pleasant retreat dramatically. Because money was scarce. A school was organized he perceived as Lincoln’s harsh wartime policies is unclear. By made a wide arc around Bryantown and were guided to the home water bounds the point on two sides (the to teach the “three Rs,” and church ser- April 1865, however, Booth had abandoned the kidnap plot in of Samuel Cox (near the present-day town of Bel Alton) shortly and the Potomac River), it vices were held in an old building. By the favor of assassination. On April 14, shortly after 10 P.M., Booth after midnight on April 16. Cox sent them to a dense pine thicket was an ideal site for the federal government time the war ended, more than 52,000 shot Lincoln in the back of the head where they hid for several days, to construct a state-of-the-art hospital, prisoners had passed through Camp Hoff- while the president watched a play receiving food and newspapers earthen-walled fortifications, and the man’s gates. Today, a small section of the at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. from Thomas Jones, a Confederate North’s largest prisoner-of-war camp. prison pen has been reconstructed where Booth fled over the Navy Yard signal agent, and Franklin Robey, A year after the war began, the fed- it once stood. Bridge into Southern Maryland. Cox’s overseer. On the night of April eral government leased the Point Lookout Three forts were erected to protect With fellow conspirator David 20, Jones led the fugitives to the Resort for an army hospital. Hammond the point and prison from Confederate Herold, he stopped about midnight Potomac River where he had hidden General Hospital, built like the spokes of a invasion. The earthen walls of one, Fort at widow Mary E. Surratt’s tavern in a rowboat. He directed them to wheel, received its first wounded patients Lincoln, remain intact, and the rest of the village of Surrattsville. She was Mathias Point on the Virginia shore, on August 17, 1862. Early in 1863, a small the fort has been reconstructed. then operating a boardinghouse in but for some reason the pair rowed number of prisoners were confined to the In 1965, a century after the war Washington, D.C., but a tenant at the to Nanjemoy Creek in Maryland, hospital grounds. Many of them were South- ended, Maryland’s Park Service created tavern testified that Booth retrieved where they rested before trying ern Marylanders accused of assisting the the 1,046–acre Point Lookout State Park. rifles, field glasses, and other sup- again the next night. Confederacy. Today, most of the hospital The Civil War story is told in the park’s plies hidden there as part of the ear- Once in Virginia, Booth and site lies underneath the Chesapeake Bay. Visitor Center exhibits. lier kidnap scheme. The tenant also Herold crossed the Rappahannock Soon after the capture of thousands of Sketch of entrance to the prison camp at Point Lookout. said that Surratt had been at the tav- River and found shelter at Richard Confederates at the ern as recently as the afternoon of Garrett’s farm. There, early in the Battle of Gettysburg, April 14, and had left instructions to Booth limps across the stage after shooting President Lincoln. morning of April 26, 1865, Federal construction began have the equipment ready. His troops found them hiding in a tobac- on Camp Hoffman, testimony was fatal to Surratt, marking the first time that the co barn. Herold surrendered as ordered, but Booth refused. To which was capable of federal government had executed and hung a woman. force him out, the barn was set on fire. The soldiers could see Booth holding 10,000 pris- Booth and Herold did not linger at the tavern, but headed through the slats in the barn, and Sgt. Boston Corbett shot him in oners of war. As the south to the village of T.B. and then into Charles County. Their the back of the neck. Soldiers dragged Booth onto the of war progressed and exact route is uncertain, but their destination was Dr. Samuel A. the nearby farmhouse, where he died a few hours later. Herold prisoner exchanges Mudd’s home about three miles north of Bryantown. The doctor was returned to Washington, D.C., where he stood trial and suf- ceased, the camp and Booth had met previously, and Mudd had introduced the actor fered death on the gallows. became over- to a leading Confederate agent, Thomas Harbin, as well as John Of those who helped Booth escape through Maryland, only crowded, with more Surratt, Jr., a Confederate courier and son of . Herold, Mrs. Surratt and Dr. Mudd were prosecuted. Cox, Jones, than 20,000 men The fugitives arrived at the Mudd farm early in the morning and others associated with the assassin’s flight were released confined by June of April 15, seeking help for the broken leg that Booth had sus- after several weeks in jail. Jones wrote a book, J. Wilkes Booth 1864. At the height tained in his escape. After setting the leg, Mudd allowed the pair (1893), about his experience. of the war, the lack

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uring the Civil War, conflict was not confined to the battlefields; governments, as hen President Abraham Lin- in Annapolis inspired more than 100 slaves o keep Maryland from seced- That autumn, she was confined in well as families, were divided. The federal government took drastic and controver- coln issued the Emancipation to enlist. Most joined the 30th and 39th ing when the Civil War the Old Capitol Prison, on the sial steps to keep Maryland in the Union, arresting newspaper editors and even Proclamation, followed in Regiments and later served in the Wilder- began in April 1861, present site of the U.S. D state and local officials suspected of Confederate sympathies. On May 26, 1862, W May 1863 by General Order ness Campaign, the Siege of Petersburg T President Abraham Supreme Court, and then as federal troops surrounded the Talbot County Courthouse in Easton, Deputy U.S. Marshal 143 establishing a U.S. Bureau of Colored and the Battle of the Crater, and the Cap- Lincoln ordered Federal sent to Richmond. She John S. McPhail and Special Officer John L. Bishop entered the courtroom and arrested Troops (USCT), he sealed the fate of the ture of Richmond. troops to occupy the state. spent time in Europe and Judge Richard Bennett Carmichael. The judge had been an outspoken opponent of the pres- “peculiar institution” of slavery. Although African Americans from Maryland’s He also suspended the wrote her memoirs, My ence of Federal troops at Eastern Shore polling places during local elections in 1861, which he Maryland would not emancipate its 87,000 Eastern Shore also served with distinction; writ of habeas corpus, Imprisonment and the believed intimidated voters. When Carmichael asked by what authority McPhail and Bishop slaves for almost two more years, Maryland three of whom received the Medal of Hon- and jailed suspected Con- First Year of Abolition disrupted the proceedings, they replied, “By the authority of the United States.” Carmichael slaves liberated themselves by the thou- or. In Talbot County, the town of Unionville federate sympathizers, Rule at Washington. resisted, and Bishop clubbed him repeatedly with a revolver butt until he lay bloody and sands to join free African Americans in the was founded in 1867 by 18 USCT veterans including public officials, Greenhow sailed in a unconscious on the courtroom floor. The 125 men of the 2nd Delaware Infantry Regiment United States Army and Navy. whose graves are located in the cemetery of newspaper editors, and blockade runner for then escorted the judge to a waiting steamer at Wye Landing. Prosecuting attorney Isaac C.W. Masters jailed slaves to prevent escape St. Stephens A.M.E. Church. In Kent Coun- private citizens. Had Mary- North Carolina in 1864, Powell, a prominent Eastonian who was roughed up when he tried to help Carmichael, was or recruitment by Union troops; those who ty, more than 400 blacks joined the USCT, land seceded, Confederate but the ship sank off also arrested and transported to Baltimore. fled risked reprisals on family members and many perished. Surviving veterans territory would have sur- Cape Fear and she During their six-month confinement at Forts left behind, and those who were established an integrated Charles rounded Washington, D.C. drowned. She is buried in McHenry, Lafayette, and Dela ware, they were caught were sometimes tortured Sumner Post in Chestertown that Though many Maryland Wilmington, N.C. never formally charged. Carmichael twice wrote or killed. Even free Maryland served them and their families men served in the U.S. Army, Another Maryland spy, President Abraham Lincoln in protest but blacks were barred from for more than a century. thousands of others enlisted in Rosatta Maria O’Neal Greenhow Olivia Floyd, conducted her received no reply. enlisting until October 3, Harriet Tubman, born Confederate service. Southern espionage activities from 1863, when the USCT in Dorchester County, partisans who stayed home conducted sig- Rose Hill, her home in Port Tobacco, Talbot County Courthouse, Easton (right) began recruiting in served as a scout for the nal corps operations, ran the federal block- using her charm to extract information Caroline County Courthouse (below) Maryland. Slaveholders 2nd South Carolina Vol- ade to deliver vital supplies, and engaged in from Union officers. After the war, she were offered compensa- unteers. Other African- espionage. Southern Maryland was a hot- was the guest of honor at a Confederate tion for any slave who American women bed of “secesh” intrigue, and many famous veterans’ reunion in Kentucky. enlisted with or without became nurses and spies. Confederate spies had ties to this region. Pro-Confederate residents of South- his master’s consent. Two sons of Frederick Perhaps the most famous Confederate ern Maryland not only gathered military Enlist they did. Douglass, a Talbot spy, Rosatta Maria O’Neal Greenhow, known intelligence but also food, supplies, and Despite inequality in pay County native, served as as “Rebel Rose,” was born in Southern medicine. Sick and hungry Confederate and rations, segregated commissioned officers. Maryland about 1814. An antebellum social soldiers who slipped into Southern Mary- units, and extra danger In all, 8,718 Mary- leader in Washington, D.C., Greenhow used land got help from sympathizers. Accord- on the battlefield—Con- land African Americans, her connections to elicit critical information ing to local tradition, young Catharine federates sometimes both slave and free, from federal officials and military figures. Hayden, known as the Angel of Chaptico, massacred, wounded, and joined the USCT. Many In July 1861, aided by another Marylander, provided Confederate soldiers with food captured black troops— “Once let the black man get upon others joined the U.S. Betty Duvall, Greenhow delivered a coded and medicine she obtained from her African Americans his person the brass letter, U.S., Navy. After President message detailing Union plans for the First uncle, a physician. She suffered an epi- enlisted, served with let him get an eagle on his button, Abraham Lincoln’s assas- Battle of Manassas to Confederate Gen. leptic seizure on Christmas Day 1872, fell honor, and fought in sig- and a musket on his shoulder and sination, USCT were Pierre G.T. Beauregard. Confederate presi- into a fireplace, and died the following nificant engagements. bullets in his pocket, there is no among those dispatched dent Jefferson Davis credited Greenhow day. For years, her family received letters In February 1864, a power on earth that can deny that he to search the Southern with the ensuing victory. from all over the South from veterans USCT company encamp- has earned the right to citizenship.” Maryland countryside In August, federal officials placed her who had learned of her tragic death. She ment at St. Johns College Frederick Douglass for his killers. under house arrest, but she continued to spy. is buried at Christ Church in Chaptico.

MARYLAND CIVIL WAR TRAILS Cover: How to Use this Map-Guide ## TR AV EL RESOURCES ## WAR ON THE WATER John Wilkes Booth; half-length, standing, This guide depicts a scenic 90-mile from the U.S. Nation- driving tour that follows the route taken al Archives & Records by John Wilkes Booth as he attempted Administration escape after assassinating President For more information on the Civil War, recre- he Chesapeake Bay was Abraham Lincoln in April 1865. This guide ation and traveling in Maryland, please visit: vitally important to both also offers a collection of sites scattered Maryland Office of Howard County Tourism Union and Confederate Driving Route of Booth’s Escape Route throughout the southern region of the forces during the Civil War Booth’s Escape Route Site Tourism Development & Promotion Limited or No Public Access Site Chesapeake Bay. Follow the bugle trail- T 401 E. Pratt Street 8267 Main Street because whoever controlled the water- Other Civil War Trails Site blazer signs to waysides that chronicle National, State or County Park 14th Floor Ellicott City, MD 21043 ways substantially controlled the war Information or Welcome Center the day-to-day tale of America’s most Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 313-1902 in the region. Although the bay and infamous villain and explore the Civil (877) 333-4455 www.VisitHowardCounty.com its tributaries, which were sprinkled War’s lesser-known but important sites. www.visitmaryland.org FREDERICK Kent County Office of Tourism with forts and strongholds, offered Along the way, explore the landscape while paddling a BALTIMORE protection from invaders, they also waterway or while hiking or biking a trail, and experience 400 High Street Chestertown, MD 21620 made excellent military targets. In nature and Civil War heritage up close. Parks, trails, historic Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum (410) 778-0416 addition, the combatants’ capitals sites and museums offer an in depth look of the war on the WASHINGTON, D.C. www.kentcounty.com home front, in the heat of battle and beyond the battlefield. Talbot County Office of Tourism Point Lookout State Park were located on two of the bay’s major Brochure Design by Communication Design, Inc., Richmond, VA Take a break in nearby Civil War cities and towns for dining, Prince George’s County 11 S. Harrison Street 11175 Point Lookout Road rivers. The United States capital, lodging, shopping and attractions. Conference & Visitors Bureau Easton, MD 21601 Scotland, MD 20687 Washington, D.C., is on the Potomac (301) 872-5688 For additional Civil War Trails information, visit 9200 Basil Court, Suite 101 (410) 770-8000 River directly across from Alexan- www.tourtalbot.org http://dnr2.maryland.gov/ www.civilwartrails.org and download the Maryland Civil War Surratt House Museum Largo, MD 20774 dria, Virginia, and the Confederate (301) 925-8300 publiclands/Pages/southern/ RICHMOND Trails app from Apple or Google Play to discover Civil War Worcester County Tourism capital, Richmond, Virginia, was on www.visitprincegeorges.com pointlookout.aspx history and fun things to see and do along the way. Annapolis & Anne Arundel 104 West Market Street the James River only 90 miles over- Surratt House Museum County Convention & Visitors Queen Anne’s County Tourism Snow Hill, MD 21863 land from Washington, D.C. 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