Location Details
- 70 East Main StreetWestminster, MD 21157
The John Brooke Boyle House, also called “Rosser’s Choice,” is the site where Confederate Colonel Thomas Lafayette Rosser spent a night while leading his cavalry regiment through Westminster in September 1862.
During the Antietam Campaign, Confederate Colonel Thomas Lafayette Rosser and his Fifth Virginia Cavalry spent the night of September 11, 1862, at the John Brooke Boyle House after raiding local Union forces. Rosser and his men remained only one night before continuing on toward Sharpsburg. Before leaving Westminster, Rosser managed to capture the local Union provost marshal and destroy Union enrollment books for the draft.
