Shepherdstown, West Virginia | This historic district contained a number of Confederate hospitals formed in the wake of the Battle of Antietam.

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Kennedy Farmhouse
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2406 Chestnut Grove Road
Sharpsburg, MD 21782, USA
Website: http://johnbrown.org/
In July 1859 abolitionist John Brown, a wanted man for his activities in the Kansas Territory, rented the home of recently deceased Dr. Kennedy under the alias "Isaac Smith" for $35 in gold. Brown, his two sons, and Lt. Jeremiah Anderson used the farm as a staging area to prepare for their intended October raid on the Harpers Ferry arsenal. As the summer progressed, members of the Provisional Army of the United States arrived one or two at a time until twenty-one of them were hidden in the attic loft. The old farmhouse where Brown and his followers spent three and a half months has been completely restored with the use of federal, state, and philanthropic funds.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia | The site of abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid on the First Federal Arsenal and the base for Union invasions into the Shenandoah Valley.
Front Royal, Virginia | This 1860 interpretation of a middle-class house emphasizes the life of famed Confederate spy Belle Boyd.
Keedysville, Maryland | A Battle of Antietam Site, a museum focusing on Civil War field hospitals is contained here.
Sharpsburg, Maryland | The site of the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. Antietam witnessed twelve hours of combat on September 17, 1862, in which 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or left missing.
Middletown, Maryland | The site of the the Battle where General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North was halted
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