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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3A_battle-of-funkstown_Hagerstown-MD.html
The Confederate presence at Funkstown threatened any Union advance against Gen. Robert E. Lee's position near Williamsport and the Potomac River as he retreated to Virginia after the Battle of Gettysburg. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry, posted at Fu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM39_jonathan-hager-house_Hagerstown-MD.html
October 16, 1739, Jonathan Hager took up "Hager's Fancy" 200 acres in the valley of Antietam Creek. A year later he married Elizabeth Kershner for whom Elizabeth-Town (Hagerstown) was named and established his home here. In 1944 it was aquired by …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM38_gen-robert-e-lee_Hagerstown-MD.html
Gen. Robert E. Lee with Longstreet's Corps entered Hagerstown Sept. 11, 1862 to make it a base for operations in Pennsylvania. On Sept. 14, 1862 this force hastened to the battle of South Mountain and then to the battlefield of Antietam.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D_c-o-canal-aqueduct_Williamsport-MD.html
On September 10, 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and a detachment of 15,000 men, about two-thirds of the Army of Northern Virginia, to capture the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry and secure Confederate lines of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C_williamsport_Williamsport-MD.html
On June 15, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North began here as 2,000 of Gen. Albert G. Jenkins's infantrymen splashed across the Potomac River. For the next eleven days, almost 50,000 soldiers under Gens. James Longs…