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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMH_ferry-hill-place_Sharpsburg-MD.html
John Blackford, in 1810, built the Ferry Hill Plantation House standing before you. Blackford owned 25 slaves and managed the farm by himself. The slaves and hired laborers worked with minimum direction. Two slaves, Ned and Jupe, ran the river fer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMG_1862-antietam-campaign_Sharpsburg-MD.html
Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4-6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMF_grove-farm_Sharpsburg-MD.html
At the time of the bloody Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, this house was the home of Stephen P. Grove, and this was his farm. The Federal Army of the Potomac camped throughout the area after the battle; the Grove house became the headqua…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMME_antietam-station_Sharpsburg-MD.html
After the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, soldiers' families traveled by rail to Hagerstown or Frederick, and then by horse and buggy to the site to recover the bodies of loved ones or to search for survivors. Thus began a constant strea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMD_1862-antietam-campaign_Sharpsburg-MD.html
Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4-6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMC_general-edward-braddock_Sharpsburg-MD.html
General Edward Braddock in April 1755 (driven in his coach and six horses) crossed into Virginia near this point on his way to Fort Cumberland, after ten days' conference with Benjamin Franklin and others in Frederick, Md., arranging for teams and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM0_swearingens-ferry-and-pack-horse-ford_Sharpsburg-MD.html
Thomas Swearingen began operating in 1755 a ferry where Rumsey Bridge now crosses the Potomac. It was about half a mile upstream from Pack Horse Ford. During the Revolution the Ford and Ferry served the Continental Army; British and German prisone…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZ_blackfords-ford_Sharpsburg-MD.html
Also known as Boteler's Pack Horse and Shepherdstown Ford. "Stonewall" Jackson's command crossed here en route from Harper's Ferry to Sharpsburg. Here the entire Army of Northern Virginia withdrew into Virginia, Sept. 18-19, 1862, following the Ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKC_ferry-hill-place_Sharpsburg-MD.html
The boyhood home of Colonel Henry Kyd Douglas, a member of Stonewall Jackson's staff. Sept. 18, 1862, Federal troops occupied these premises and confined the Douglas family. June 18, 1863, Headquarters of Confederate Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson, en r…