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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOS_chews-ashby-artillery_Jefferson-MD.html
Captain R. Preston Chew organized Chew's Ashby Artillery, the first "horse artillery" in the Confederate army, in November 1861. He named it for Colonel Turner Ashby. Chew's battery bosted a 3 in ordinance rifle, a 12-pounder smoothbore howitzer, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOO_burkittsville-henry-burkitts-town_Jefferson-MD.html
The first settlers in this area cleared their farm land and raised their families along two Indian trails that crossed here. Joshua Harley, one of these pioneers and a veteran of the American Revolution, started the settlement's first dry goods st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOH_confederate-forces_Jefferson-MD.html
Confederate ForcesCol. T. T. Munford, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, Commanding, Munford's Brigade,2nd & 12th Virginia Cavalry. Mahone's Brigade, Lt. Col. Wm. A. Parham, 41st Virginia, Commanding. 6th, 12th, 16th, 41st, and 61st Virginia Infantry (Septembe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOG_mell-rifles-troup-light-artillery_Jefferson-MD.html
(Front Side): The Mell Rifles, Co. D, Cobb's Legion Infantry, was raised in Athens, GA. in July 1861, by Patrick Hues Mell, Baptist minster and Vice Chancellor of the University of Georgia. After Mell resigned due to his wife's death, Thomas U. Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOA_maryland-campaign-of-1862-the-lost-orders_Jefferson-MD.html
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On September 4, 1862, General Robert E. Lee, hoping to shorten the war by winning a decisive victory on Northern soil, crossed the Potomac River into Maryland. Lee planned to draw the Army of the Potomac through South Mountain into …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO4_the-battle-of-south-mountain_Jefferson-MD.html
In September, 1862, after the second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee led his victorious Confederates on their first invasion of the North.
At Frederick, Md. he boldly divided his army. Three columns (No. 1) were to surround and capture …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNW_abraham-lakin-2nd_Jefferson-MD.html
Veteran of French and Indian War, early settler, head of family of Revolutionary patriots buried in the cemetery of homestead near here. At outset of the Revolution he and his sons Abraham, Basil, Daniel, John and his nephew Samuel were listed wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNV_sixth-army-corps_Jefferson-MD.html
U. S. A.Sixth Army Corps.Major Gen. W. B. Franklin, Commanding(September 14, 1862) The Sixth Corps consisted of two Divisions commanded by Major Generals H. W. Slocum and W. F. Smith. On the march of the Army of the Potomac through Maryland, this …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNU_cramptons-pass-tablet-c-p-3_Jefferson-MD.html
(September 14, 1862)Upon the approach of the Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac, from Jefferson, Col. T. T. Munford, Commanding Cavalry Brigade, prepared to dispute its advance through this Pass. Mahone's Brigade, Lt. Col. Parham, Commanding, was pu…
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C. S. A.Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws' Command(September 12-13, 1862)
McLaws' Command consisted of Kershaw's, Barksdale's, Semmes' and Cobb's Brigades of his own Division and R. H. Anderson's Division of six Brigades-Wilcox's, Mahone's, Featherst…