“Sacred to the Memory”: The Stonecarving of Sebastian Hammond
Download PDF with Citations Over one hundred unique, beautifully carved tombstones are scattered in church and family cemeteries along the […]
Stories in Focus
Antietam Cemetery and the Problem of Lee’s Rock
Download PDF with Citations A map of Antietam National Cemetery from 1867 includes in the bottom right a teardrop shaped
Tolson’s Chapel and the Freedmen’s Bureau
Download PDF with Citations On an April morning in 1868, eighteen young African American students filed into a church in
A View from the Attic at Union Mills
Download PDF with Citations The photograph shown above was taken from the SW dormer window of the Union Mills home
The Hoop Skirt Smugglers
Download PDF with Citations In July 1864, four women risked charges of treason to smuggle supplies for Confederate soldiers across
Deportation to Dixie
Download PDF with Citations On August 3, 1864, Major General David Hunter, head of the Department of West Virginia (which
The Great Escape
Download PDF with Citations In March of 1862, in response to the growing number of Union prisoners of war, Confederate
Divided Families: The Shriver Brothers of Union Mills
Download PDF with Citations In 1863, brothers Andrew K. Shriver and William Shriver together shared the family homestead in Union
The First Victim of the War
Download PDF with Citations The soldiers marching through Baltimore knew they were in trouble. An angry mob had set up
Bernard M. Campbell, Baltimore Slave Trader in Carroll County
Download PDF with Citations Bernard M. Campbell, one of Baltimore’s most notorious traders of enslaved African Americans, owned both land