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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2PZ_roses-mill-bridge_Hagerstown-MD.html
This handsome three-arch bridge over Antietam Creek was constructed by John Weaver in 1839 and was specially adapted to the grain mill which was built at the same time. The westernmost of the three arches was designed to accommodate the millrace f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2L5_gettysburg-campaign-leitersburg_Hagerstown-MD.html
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north throug…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2L3_retreat-into-maryland-leitersburg_Hagerstown-MD.html
Gettysburg CampaignIt was a miserable night, and an even more miserable journey. As 3 a.m. neared on July 5, 1863, the van of the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg arrived here at Leitersburg. The men had marched nonstop for nearly twelve hours,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM201_battle-of-funkstown_Hagerstown-MD.html
After Gettysburg, in order to mask entrenching operations along the Potomac river by General R. E. Lee, Confederate troops, led by General J.E.B. Stuart, engaged Union forces under General John Buford. The day-long battle east of the road resulted…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZI_one-of-lees-ammunition-trains_Hagerstown-MD.html
One of Lee's ammunition trains was captured here Sept. 15, 1862 by 1200 Federal cavalry under Col. B. F. Davis, escaping from Gen. T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson's capture of Harpers Ferry. This loss was felt by the Confederate army at the Battle of An…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNL_building-the-funkstown-bridge_Hagerstown-MD.html
"The turnpike bridge at Funkstown is the only one...which seems to belong to a town" —Helen Ashe Hays, The Antietam and its Bridges
This bridge, finished in 1823, is perhaps the oldest one over Antietam Creek. Irish immigrant laborers mad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNJ_funkstown-bridge-no-2_Hagerstown-MD.html
This bridge over Antietam Creek at Funkstown was built in 1833 by George Weaver for $1,800. At this site was Shafer's Mill where flour was ground. The most notable feature of this bridge is the graduated size of its three arches, growing larger fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNI_civil-war-hospital-site_Hagerstown-MD.html
Civil War Hospital SiteAngela Kirkham Davis HouseWas used as a hospital duringThe Maryland Campaign 1862Private Propertycourtesy of S.H.A.F.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNH_baltimore-street_Hagerstown-MD.html
When the National Road was completed through Funkstown in 1823, a rush of "stagecoaches and wagon teams, droves of cattle, teamsters and travelers" flooded through the town. Although Baltimore was seventy miles to the east, the Funkstown city foun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNG_keller-home_Hagerstown-MD.html
Used to treat Confederate officer H.D. McDaniel 11th GA. Regt. during the battle of Funkstown July 10, 1863, who suffered a severe wound and was brought to this house. He survived to later become governor of Georgia.