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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• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

  Dixon Stansbury Miles

  

  At Harpers Ferry, when not faced with floods and attacks by the Confederate forces, Miles drilled the soldiers to better prepare them for battle. Read more

• John George Nicolay

  

  John Nicolay was a journalist and private Secretary to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. After the war, Nicolay served as American Consul in Paris and then Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more

• Robert Parrott

  

  Robert Parrott was a businessman and inventor of the Parrott Rifled Cannon. Superior to its smooth-bore predecessors and most of its contemporary competition, the Parrott gun was used extensively by both sides in the American Civil War Read more

• Allan Pinkerton

  

  Allan Pinkerton was founder of America's first private police agency, which was employed to guard President Lincoln and gather intelligence on Confederate troop strength and movements. Read more

• Manassas National Battlefield Park

  John Pope

  

  After Lee succeeded in stopping McClellan's push toward Richmond and sending the Army of the Potomac retreating toward Washington, he turned his attention to John Pope's Army of Virginia. Read more

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