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Meade's Pipe Creek Plan
— Gettysburg Campaign —
On June 29, 1863, Union Gen. George G. Meade ordered the Army of the Potomac to Pipe Creek to counter any move toward Washington or Baltimore by Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and to engage the Confederates in battle. Meade was uncertain of Lee's strength or location.The Federal right flank rested here at Manchester, the center of Union Mills and the left at Middleburg. Gen. John Sedgwick's VI Corps, Meade's largest occupied the position with 15,000 men on June 30, after marching from New Windsor through Westminster. Soon the landscape here was dotted for miles with tents and campfires. Manchester's kind citizens brought bread, cakes, pies, and milk to the exhausted and footsore soldiers, some of whom lacked shoes. The next day the men rested, cleaned their weapons, and drew sixty rounds of ammunition each. Late in the evening, the order came to march again. VI Corps retraced its steps in the direction of Westminster to intersect Littlestown Turnpike and then marched north. The 34-mile march from Manchester in darkness and then under a scorching sun to Gettysburg was one of the longest and fastest marches of the Civil War.
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(lower left) Straggler
(upper right) Gen. George G. Meade and Gen. John Sedgwick
Details
| HM Number | HM1FKM | |
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| Additional Information | Follow Maryland Civil War Trails sign to take badly paved road down to small park area. | |
| Series | This marker is part of the Maryland Civil War Trails series | |
| Tags | ||
| Historical Period | 19th Century | |
| Historical Place | Military Installation | |
| Marker Type | Historic District | |
| Marker Class | Historical Marker | |
| Marker Style | Free Standing | |
| Placed By | Maryland Civil War Trails By Don Morfe, July 26, 2014 |
Learning that the Union army was close and getting closer, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee orders his army to consolidate somewhere near the Maryland-Pennsylvania border.
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Locationbig map
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 337782 N 4391978 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 39.66223333, -76.89105000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 39° 39.734', W 76° 53.463' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 39° 39' 44.0400" N, 76° 53' 27.7800" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 443, 410 |
| Can be seen from road? | No |
| Is marker in the median? | No |
| Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling West |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 2969 MD-27, Manchester MD 21102, US |
| Alternative Maps | Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSR Maps, OpenCycleMap, MyTopo Maps, OpenStreetMap |
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