Confederate veterans are buried in the cemetery adjoining Monocacy Chapel.
Union and Confederate forces clashed here on July 9, 1864, in the “Battle that Saved Washington.”
Many Union and Confederate soldiers are buried in this cemetery, as well as Barbara Fritchie and other Civil War notables.
During the Battle of Antietam the Mumma Farmstead was the only civilian property that was intentionally damaged.
The museum tells the story of medical care for soldiers during the Civil War.
Sitting atop the summit of South Mountain at Turner’s Gap, Confederate Brig. Gen. Daniel Harvey Hill made his headquarters in the inn during the Battle of South Mountain.
During the Battle of Antietam, the Otto farm was occupied by both armies at different times, and after the battle it was used as a Union hospital.
This farm was used by General George McClellan as headquarters during the Battle of Antietam; it was also a hospital and signal station.
Pine Grove Chapel was occupied by the Northern army as a barracks for troops guarding the railroad.
During the Battle of Antietam, the Piper House served as headquarters for two Confederate generals and was damaged during the fight at nearby Bloody Lane.
Prospect Hall was the site of the transfer of command of the Army of the Potomac from Union General Joseph Hooker to General George Meade before the Battle of Gettysburg.
In October 1862, Abraham Lincoln stopped at this house to visit a Union general recovering from a wound received at the Battle of Antietam.
This house was owned by Roger Brooke Taney, future Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, from 1815 to 1823.
After the Civil War, Waterford Quaker Reuben Schooley sold property on Second Street to be used by the “colored people of Waterford and vicinity.”
The United States government authorized the enlistment of African Americans for the Union Army in 1863, but it was the Spring of 1864 before active recruitment began.
Confederate General Bradley T. Johnson and Colonel Harry Gilmor made this house their headquarters for a few hours in July 1864 during their raid through Maryland.
Simon Murdock was a Civil War veteran and an important member of the New Windsor African-American community following the war.
This cemetery in Gettysburg National Military Park holds the remains of 3,555 Union soldiers.
South Mountain State Battlefield preserves and commemorates the various sites associated with the Battle of South Mountain, fought on September 14, 1862.
The church building was used as a hospital during the war, and the cemetery holds the remains of Roger Brooke Taney and several Civil War soldiers.
