the places
Locations of significance during the American Civil War. – Under construction. -
Alexandria
Baltimore
Berlin
Best’s Grove
Two miles from Frederick. Location “where Jackson and D.H. Hill had already established their headquarters” and where “five leading generals of the Army of Northern Virginia pitched their tents in the same woods.” Source: Joseph L. Harsh, Take at the Flood, (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1999), 105-106.
Big Springs
Site of encampment of Lee’s army during his invasion of Maryland, early September, 1862.
Blacksburg
Bolivar Heights, near Harpers Ferry
Making better time than expected, A. P. Hill’s van reached the turnpike from Charlestown, turned north, and stopped just short of Halltown at eleven o’clock. Jackson could now see the enemy’s defenses on Bolivar Heights two miles to the front, but he decided not to develop his line until he had scouted the position and established contact with McLaws and Walker. Jones and Lawton were halted in the rear of Hill. 32 1
1. Joseph L. Harsh, Taken at the Flood : Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 / [book on-line] (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1999, accessed 9 August 2009), 228; available from Questia, http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102364938; Internet.
Boonsboro
Buckeystown, Maryland
Bull Run, First Manassas
Catoctin Gap
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Charleston, South Carolina
Crampton’s Gap, South Mountain
Cumberland
Darnestown
Elk’s Ridge (Blue Ridge in Virginia?)
South of the Potomac, John Walker, who was just as isolated from the rest of the army as McLaws, broke camp at about 6:30. His two brigades marched south through Hillsboro and then turned right, heading west on the road from Leesburg. Having no notion of the situation he might encounter, Walker decided to mask his approach from the enemy in Harpers Ferry. He stopped short of Vestal Gap in the Blue Ridge and proceeded north on the road that ran between the Blue Ridge (Elk Ridge in Maryland) and the Short Hills (South Mountain in Maryland). Known locally as “between the Hills,” this dale was a continuation of Pleasant Valley across the Potomac. 1
1. Joseph L. Harsh, Taken at the Flood : Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 / [book on-line] (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1999, accessed 9 August 2009), 226; available from Questia, http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102364936; Internet.
Fort Sumter
Frederick, Maryland
Gaines’ Mill
Gainesville
Hagan’s Gap, Maryland (in the Catocins)
Hagerstown, Maryland
Harper’s Ferry
Kanawha Valley
Leesburg
Loudoun County
Loudoun Heights
Passing through Neersville, Walker reached the eastern foot of Loudoun Heights, the crown of the Blue Ridge on the Potomac, by ten o’clock. Here he was greeted by the ominous sound of a cannonade in the water gap beyond the mountain. The mysterious firing was soon explained, as up rode a party of engineers and signal officers sent by Jackson to guide the placement of artillery and open communications between the columns. Walker thus learned that the nature of his mission had changed. He had now become one element in a complicated siege operation. 1
1. Joseph L. Harsh, Taken at the Flood : Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 / [book on-line] (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1999, accessed 9 August 2009), 226; available from Questia, http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102364936; Internet.
Manassas
Maryland Heights
- Overlook Harpers Ferry on the Maryland side
- 2000 ft. mountain
- Captured by McLaws forces on September 13, 1862
- A signal party place there
- Federal artillery was carried off or spiked leaving Confederates n need of hauling up guns
Martinsburg
Mason-Dixon Line
Middleburg
Middletown Valley
Monocacy Junction
Where the Frederick spur line joined he main B’&’O line just west of the river.
Narrows
Offutt’s Crossroads
Pleasant Valley, Maryland
Point of Rocks
Port Royal, South Carolina
Ravenswood
Richmond, Virginia
Rockville
Sandy Hook, village near Harpers Ferry at the base of the mountain
Secessionville, South Carolina
Sharpsburg
Shenandoah Valley
South Mountain
Tennallytown
Thoroughfare Gap
Three Springs
Near Buckeystown, site of encampments of Lee’s army as it invaded Maryland in September, 1862.
Great site! My civil war knowledge consists of having read the Shaara trilogy and touring the battlefields at Gettysburg. I’ll look forward to visiting occasionally to learn what you’re learning!
Aline
November 6, 2007 at 4:42 pm