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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSIT_battle-of-unison_Round-Hill-VA.html
(Preface):After the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia escaped to Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln repeatedly urged Union Gen. George B. McClellan to pursue and attack. Following a plan that Lin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSIS_battle-of-unison_Purcellville-VA.html
(Preface):After the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia escaped to Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln repeatedly urged Union Gen. George B. McClellan to pursue and attack. Following a plan that Lin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSE8_lee-comes-to-leesburg_Leesburg-VA.html
On the afternoon of September 4, 1862, five days after the Confederate victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, throngs of well-wishers lined Leesburg's streets, including King Street behind you, to welcome the threadbare but jubilant Army of Nor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSE4_ambush-at-ankerss-shop_Potomac-Falls-VA.html
Samuel and Henrietta Ankers lived at this site during the Civil War. On the morning of February 22, 1864, just outside their front door, about 160 of Confederate Lt. Col. John Singleton Mosby's horsemen ambushed 150 of Union Capt. J. Sewall Reed's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRX3_battle-of-upperville_Upperville-VA.html
(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia went into the Shenandoah Valley, then north through Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQWK_elizabeth-mills-riverfront-park_Lansdowne-VA.html
This riverfront park will transport you back in time. It will enable you to look beyond the modern developments that dominate the landscape here today. It will take you back centuries, when American Indians lived here, harvesting the bounty of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOJO_vestals-gap-road_Sterling-VA.html
Vestal's Gap Road is among the oldest remaining segments of colonial highway in America. Initially an Indian trail, it became an important route for commerce from Alexandria to Leesburg and Winchester, westward migration, and troop movements. Lt. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIIR_additional-area-civil-war-sites_Leesburg-VA.html
1. Sugarloaf Mountain - This was the site of a Union Signal Corps station that remained in operation throughout much of the war.
2. White's Ferry - Originally called Conrad's Ferry, this crossing was established in 1817 about four miles north o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMICE_battle-of-balls-bluff_Leesburg-VA.html
6 AM - After crossing the river, the 15 MA (Colonel Devens) advanced to the area near the Jackson house, leaving the 20 MA (Colonel Lee) on the bluff to guard the exit path to the river.
8 AM - Captain Duff's (17 MS) Company ran into Devens (15…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHZH_tracks-into-history_Hamilton-VA.html
The railroad that became the Washington & Old Dominion was born in Alexandria in response to the competition in shipping posed by the port in Baltimore, which was served by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The B&O was diverting farm produce from the…