Washington
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virg...
Appomattox
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Gra...
Gettysburg
In the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Gen. Robert E. Lee awaited the approach of Union Gen. George G. Meade’s forces. On July 1, early Union success faltered as Confederates pushed back against the Iron Brigade and exploited a weak Federal line at Barlow’s Knoll. The following day saw Lee s...
Warren County
The Trading Path extended from middle North Carolina into what is now Petersburg, Virginia. Indians traded furs with Virginians, and the path passed the present town of Norlina in Warren County.
Sharpsburg
The morning assault and vicious Confederate counterattacks swept back and forth through Miller’s Cornfield and the West Woods. Later, towards the center of the battlefield. Late in the day the third and final major assault by the Union army pushed over a bullet-strewn stone bridge at Antietam Creek...
Bull Run
This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. On July 16, 1861, the Union army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army. Confederates extended and broke the Union right flank. The Federal retreat rapidly deteriorated into a rout. In the m...
Harpers Ferry
The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought September 12–15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. As Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia advanced into Maryland in the fall of 1862, Lee hoped to capture the Union at Harpers Ferry. Surrounded on three sides by stee...