People in the Maryland Campaign

Union Fife Player
Union Fife Player

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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  • Henry Kyd Douglas

    Photograph of 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

  • Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

    Frederick Douglass

    Photo of 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

  • Manassas National Battlefield Park

    Jubal Anderson Early

    Photograph of Jubal 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

  • Sarah Emma Edmonds

    Photograph of Sarah Edmonds

    Although women were barred from military service during the Civil War, Sarah Edmonds didn't let that stop her. Read more

  • Annie Etheridge

    Photograph of 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

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