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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNR_cramptons-pass-tablet-c-p-1_Jefferson-MD.html
Between September 4th and 7th, 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, Commanding, crossed the Potomac near Leesburg, and occupied Frederick, Maryland. On the 10th a movement was made to surround and capture the Union forces at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMR_train-no-286-bell-memorial_Brunswick-MD.html
(below the window) Preserve the memory of train crew by ringing this bell for Ricky, Jimmy and Jim.
(above the window) The bricks which make up the base of the bell memorial came from the B & O roundhouse that once stood in Brunswick, Maryland…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM3_1862-antietam-campaign_Jefferson-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/HMLE_george-alfred-townsend_Jefferson-MD.html
None of the structures you see here in Crampton's Gap existed during the battle on September 14, 1862. George Alfred Townsend constructed all the stone buildings and walls, as well as the Correspondents' Arch, between 1884 and 1896. Townsend, perh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKV_battle-for-cramptons-gap_Jefferson-MD.html
The Battle of South Mountain struck Crampton's Gap late in the afternoon of September 14, 1862, when Union Gen. William B. Franklin finally ordered an attack against Confederate Gen. Lafayette McLaws's force here. As the Confederate defensive line…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKU_washington-monument_Middletown-MD.html
Volunteer villagers of nearby Boonesboro celebrated their Independence Day July 4, 1827, by building and dedicating this first monument to the memory of George Washington.
Repaired and altered many times over a hundred years by patriotic citiz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK7_31-west-main-street_Middletown-MD.html
The first building on this corner was a two story, frame dwelling, built in the early 1800s. The property was purchased by the Middletown Savings Bank in 1907, and the house was soon moved to the rear of the lot. The current building was built in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5_in-commemoration_Middletown-MD.html
In Commemoration of that period in Civil War history from September 14, 1862 through January, 1863 when this building was commandeered and used by the United States Federal Government as an army hospital to care for casualties resulting from the B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK2_burkittsville_Burkittsville-MD.html
Union surgeons turned Burkittsville, a quiet rural village of some 200 people, into a hospital complex after the September 14, 1862, Battle of Crampton's Gap. The building in front of you, the German Reformed Church, was Hospital D.
Twenty-year…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK1_brunswick_Brunswick-MD.html
Union troops pursuing the Confederate army to Virginia after the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 crossed the Potomac River here. Called Berlin at the time of the Civil War, this town truly experienced the challenges of life on the border. Both t…