People in the Maryland Campaign

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National Park Service

Whether face to face in infantry assaults or directing artillery fire from the heights, battles are won by the men who fight them. But it is the generals who develop effective strategy and the officers who lead their men into the fire of combat who provide the opportunities for victory. Whether you are more interested in the common soldier or the army commander, learn more about some of the people that helped bring about the momentous events of the 1862 Northern Virginia and Maryland Campaigns.

"Let us beware of our past errors. Let us not pronounce our generals imbecile, or traitors, or cowards, because they are not uniformly successful."
~Harper's Weekly-The Rebel Raid into Maryland
Saturday, September 27, 1862

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• Abraham Lincoln

  

  The Maryland Campaign had a major impact on President Lincoln's push for emancipation of slaves throughout the United States and the Confederate States. Read more

• James Longstreet

  

  The Maryland Campaign proved to be a further testing ground of such tactics for Longstreet Read more

• Antietam National Battlefield

  Joseph K Mansfield

  

  Mansfield was one of the oldest field officers in the Army of the Potomac and would be one of the six generals to be killed or mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam Read more

• George Brinton McClellan

  

  The General-in-Chief of the Union Army had to make major decisions during the Maryland Campaign Read more

• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

  Lafayette McLaws

  

  Lafayette McLaws was a U.S. Army officer who resigned his commission in March 1861 to join the Confederate military. He quickly rose through the ranks and by 1862 was a Major General. Read more

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