"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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Henry Kyd Douglas
Douglas enlisted at Harpers Ferry as a private in the Confederate Army's 2nd Virginia infantry, one of the units that would come to be known as a part of the famous "Stonewall" Brigade. Read more
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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who rose to prominence in the abolitionist movement of ante-bellum America through the eloquence of his written and spoken words. As an advisor to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, he lobbied relentlessly for equal rights for African Americans and after the war for the racial and civic equality of all Americans. Read more
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Manassas National Battlefield Park
Jubal Anderson Early
In the Northern Virginia Campaign, Early was noted for his performance at the Battle of Cedar Mountain and arrived in the nick of time to reinforce Major General A.P. Hill on Jackson's left on Stony Ridge in the Second Battle of Manassas Read more
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Sarah Emma Edmonds
Although women were barred from military service during the Civil War, Sarah Edmonds didn't let that stop her. Read more
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Annie Etheridge
Anna Etheridge, one of the Civil War's only two female Kearny Cross recipients, is proof that women of the era could be just as brave as men in places of battle. Read more