Ramsey House

In October 1862, Abraham Lincoln stopped at this house to visit a Union general recovering from a wound received at the Battle of Antietam.

In October 1862, after the Battle of Antietam the previous month, President Abraham Lincoln made a surprise visit to the site of the battle and to Union General George McClellan, whose army was camped in the vicinity.  On his return to Washington, Lincoln traveled to Frederick to take a train back to the capital.  He first stopped at the home of Mrs. Ellen Tyler Ramsey, where Union General George Hartsuff was recuperating from a wound he had received at Antietam. President Lincoln was then driven to the train station where he gave a brief impromptu speech before boarding the train. The house is now a private residence.