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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14JC_washingtons-canal_Sterling-VA.html
This will become the great avenue into the Western Country. - George Washington
The stone wall you see nearby is not just any stone wall; it was built here in the late 1700s as part of George Washington's Patowmack Canal. The wall is a section …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14J9_crossing-the-potomac-at-rowsers-ford_Sterling-VA.html
Late afternoon on June 27, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart began assembling his cavalry brigades at Dranesville. To avoid the Union Army of the Potomac (90,000-strong) then crossing the Potomac upstream at Edwards Ferry, Stuart ordered Hampto…
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(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsvile in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsyl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSE4_ambush-at-ankerss-shop_Potomac-Falls-VA.html
Samuel and Henrietta Ankers lived at this site during the Civil War. On the morning of February 22, 1864, just outside their front door, about 160 of Confederate Lt. Col. John Singleton Mosby's horsemen ambushed 150 of Union Capt. J. Sewall Reed's…
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1847-1964site of theAnkers FamilyHome & Cemeterynineteen blue & gray soldierskilled in local actionsduring the Civil Warwere also buried here
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI8_mosbys-rangers_Sterling-VA.html
Captain John Singleton Mosby and 69 of his Confederate ranger troop were surprised at dawn while sleeping here in the Miskel farmhouse and hay barn by 150 Union cavalry. Though greatly outnumbered, Captain Mosby led his rangers on foot with revolv…