The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Wartime

March 8, 2012 By crossroads

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Union soldiers from General Nathaniel Banks' army cross the Monocacy River on and around the Monocacy Aqueduct in August 1861 (Harper's Weekly, September 14, 1861; NPS History Collection)

A detail of the previous image showing canal transport boats and soldiers on the Monocacy Aqueduct (Harper's Weekly, September 14, 1861; NPS History Collection)

Union troops being towed along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to join General Banks' command in late 1861 (The New York Illustrated News, November 11, 1861; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

General Nathaniel Banks' Union forces crossing the Potomac at Williamsport in June 1862, with the band of the 46th Pennsylvania Volunteers playing on the Virginia shore (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 5, 1862; Edwin Forbes, artist; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Detail of the previous image showing a canal boat (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 5, 1862; Edwin Forbes, artist; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Confederate cavalry commanded by General J.E.B. Stuart crossing the Potomac River into Maryland at McCoy's Ferry, above Williamsport, October 10, 1862 (Theodore R. Davis, artist; Library of Congress)

Union troops marching through a culvert of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near Hancock in 1862 (Harper's Weekly, November 8,1862; Theodore R. Davis, artist; NPS History Collection)

The Conococheague Aqueduct at Williamsport, damaged in the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 1, 1863; C.E.H. Bonwill, artist; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Confederate General Jubal Early's soldiers destroying the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal during his excursion into Maryland in 1864 (Harper's Weekly, July 30, 1864; NPS History Collection)

One of the locks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, opposite Harpers Ferry and below Maryland Heights, sketched in 1864 by Alfred Waud (Library of Congress)

This project has been generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Park Service, the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, Frederick Community College, and others. See Credits page for full list.

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Maryland and the Border
in the Civil War

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Wartime

Special Collections

Maryland and the Border in the Civil War

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Wartime

Special Collections

Maryland and the Border
in the Civil War