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Invasion of Maryland and the South’s 1862 Campaign
The piece traces Lee and Jackson planning to invade Maryland, inviting Marylanders to join the Confederate ranks, and detailing Turner's Gap and Sharpsburg actions. It covers Hooker, Longstreet, Hill, and Miles, the Harper's Ferry surrender, and implications for Washington, with notes on Gen. Hooker and Gen. White.
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South Mountain
Boonsboro
Frederick
D. H. Hill
David Harvey Hill
South Carolina
West Point
North Carolina
Potomac River
Catoctin
South Mountains
Elk Mountain
Blue Ridge System
Maryland
Pleasant Valley
Hagerstown
Turner's Gap
Fox’s Gap
Crampton’s Gap
Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Potomac
Jackson
Washington
Confederacy
Commonwealth
South
Bradley Johnson
Richmond
North
Point of Rocks
Harper's Ferry
McCicllan
Grange Turner
Longstreet
DH. Hill
Hill
Sharpsby Road
Sharpsburg
Gen. Garland
Cox
Fox
Twenty-third
Ohio
R. B. Hayes
Hayes
Gar
B. Anderson
Joseph Hooker
Willcox
Sturgis
Harlan
Fairchild
Gibbon
Hooker
Turner’s Gap
Joe Hooker
First Army Corps
Burnside
Massachusetts
Artillery
California
United States Volunteer Service
Antietam
Army of the Potomac
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Long Island
McClellan
Pleasonton
Colquitt
Garland
Drayton
Law
G. T. Anderson
Hood
Fox's Gap
Robes
Garnett
Mountain Gap
Lafayette McLaws
Maryland Heights
McLaws
Crampton Gap
Williamsport
W. B. Franklin
Crampton
Franklin
Cobb
Elkmoun
Harper’s Fi
Gettysburg
Gen. McLaws
Me“IcHan
Gen. Hill
Walker
Harper’s Ferry
Col
Dixon
Miles
Harper's Frerry
Julius White
Martinsburg
Gen. Halleck
Baltimore and Ohio
Virginia
London Heights
Confederates Dept. 15
Henry Kyd Douglas
Stonewall Deckson
White
Gen
Meek
Pennsylvania
Union
Battle of
Three Mountain Passes
Sharps Burg