The church was used as a hospital after the Battle of Antietam.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of Sharpsburg was badly damaged during the Battle of Antietam, and was used as a hospital by both the Confederate and Union armies.
Storer College was founded after the Civil War when a philanthropist donated $10,000 for the establishment of a school without regard to a student’s race, sex, or religion.
After the Battle of Gettysburg, many soldiers were treated in the surrounding towns including here at the home of Dr. Swope.
Temple Hall was home to a family of ardent Confederate supporters during the war.
Tolson’s Chapel was an African American church and Freedmen’s Bureau school in the years after the Civil War.
Sharpsburg, Maryland, suffered damage during the Battle of Antietam, and many of its buildings were used as hospitals after the battle.
The Trinity Lutheran Church steeple was used by the Union Army to send signals during the Gettysburg Campaign.
The Trumbo-Chrest House is located near the center of where the battle known as “Corbit’s Charge” occurred.
Turner’s Gap was the scene of one of a series of battles for control of the mountain passes in the Battle of South Mountain during the Maryland Campaign of 1862.
Union Cemetery contains a Confederate War Memorial.
The Union Street Methodist Episcopal Church was an African-American church founded by Reverend John Baptist Snowden in 1867.
This area of Loudoun County suffered during the Burning Raid of November and December 1864. First community in the post-Civil War South to be named for Abraham Lincoln.
Loudoun Independent Rangers, the only Union force from Virginia, was raised here in 1862 by Samuel Means, a Waterford miller.
This elaborate arch was designed to commemorate the journalists and artists of the Civil War.
Washington Confederate Cemetery, a section within Hagerstown’s Rose Hill Cemetery, holds the remains of 2,468 Confederate soldiers, mostly unknown, killed in the Antietam, South Mountain, and other battles.
Washington Monument was used as a Union signal station before and during the Battle of Antietam, and during the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg.
During the war, the land was used to bivouac troops and place guns to protect arriving artillery.
The old Union Meeting House that stood in the center of the cemetery served as a hospital for the wounded from Gettysburg.
An entertainer was found decapitated outside following a satirical show depicting Federal leaders.
