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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMML_gettysburg-campaign_Bunker-Hill-WV.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/HMMJ_martinsburg_Martinsburg-WV.html
Founded, 1778, by Gen. Adam Stephen. Named for Thomas Martin, nephew of Lord Fairfax. Home of Admirals Charles Boarman and C.K. Stribling. Locomotives seized here, 1861, in Jackson's raid were drawn by horses to Winchester, Va.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8_the-moler-family_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
The Moler Family of Jefferson County, West Virginia.
In this cemetery are buried George Adam Moler (1714-1783) and his wife Eve. George Adam Moler came to American on Aug. 29, 1730 with his father Ludwig Mohler, settling first in Lancaster, Pen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM7_118th-pennsylvania-infantry_Shepherdstown-WV.html
118th Pennsylvania Infantry(Corn Exchange Regiment)Colonel Charles M. Prevost, Commanding (September 20, 1862) The 118th Pennsylvania Infantry (737 officers and men) crossed the river by the Ford south of this and was ordered into position on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM6_barnes-brigade_Shepherdstown-WV.html
Barnes' Brigade Col. James Barnes, 18th Massachusetts Infantry, Commanding Organization 2d Maine, 18th and 22d Massachusetts, 1st Michigan, 13th and 25th New York, 118th Pennsylvania Infantry, 2d Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters(September 20, 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM2_1862-antietam-campaign_Shepherdstown-WV.html
Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4-6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM1_a-p-hills-march_Shepherdstown-WV.html
About two o'clock in the afternoon of September 17, 1862, Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill's 3,000-man division began crossing the Potomac River at Boteler's Ford about two miles northwest of here, en route to the battle raging at Antietam Creek near Sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLY_botelers-ford-tablet-b-f-3_Shepherdstown-WV.html
(September 20, 1862) Early in the morning of September 20, movements were made by General McClellan to ascertain the position of the Army of Northern Virginia. Maj. Charles S. Lovell's Brigade (1st and 6th, 2d and 10th, the 11th and 17th U. S. Inf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLX_botelers-ford-tablet-b-f-1_Shepherdstown-WV.html
This crossing of the Potomac was known as Boteler's, Blackford's or the Shepherdstown Ford. By it five Divisions of the Army of Northern Virginia, coming from Harpers Ferry, crossed into Maryland, September 16 and 17, 1862, and marched to the fiel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLV_jefferson-county-state-of-virginia_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
(East Facing Side): Jefferson CountyFormed in 1801 from Berkeley. Named for Thomas Jefferson. Home of Generals Gates, Drake, and Charles Lee. Here four companies of Washington's men organized. Shepherdstown was strongly urged as a seat of the Nati…