Civil War

The C&O Canal runs alongside the Potomac River. The river was a dividing line between the North and the South during the Civil War. The canal was strategically important to both sides.

• Balls Bluff
• The Antietam Campaign
• The Gettysburg Campaign
• Harpers Ferry
• Generals Taken at Cumberland
• Oldtown
• The Monocacy Aqueduct
• Historic Photographs