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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• Manassas National Battlefield Park

  Richard Stoddert Ewell

  

  Ewell's leadership during the Valley Campaign and the Peninsula Campaign showed what kind of man he was but getting wounded would affect him during the Maryland Campaign Read more

• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

  Thomas H Ford

  

  When the Civil War began, Ford was commissioned as Colonel of the 32nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Read more

• William Buel Franklin

  

  When the Civil War began William Buel Franklin was a natural choice for command and led a brigade at First Bull Run. Shortly afterwards he was appointed as a division commander in the newly-created Army of the Potomac. Then, in March 1862, when the army was reorganized into corps, Franklin was selected as the commander of VI Corps, which he subsequently led in the Peninsula Campaign. Read more

• Antietam National Battlefield

  William Henry French

  

  William Henry French was stationed at Fort Duncan, Texas when the lone star state seceded from the Union, and as a staunch unionist, he rapidly led his command to stamp down on secessionist activities. Read more

• Antietam National Battlefield

  Alexander Gardner

  

  An influental photographer who mastered the art of photography by taking iconic images of people like President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and the Conspirators to kill President Lincoln. Also he worked with fellow photographer Mathew Brady and captured the destruction at Civil War battlefields. Read more

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