The fields along Fox’s Gap in central Maryland are mostly forest now, grown over since the day in September 1862 when thousands of men fought here. The former Wise Farm, where Union and ...

The map-guides chart nearly 200 Civil War sites throughout the state and serve as a tool to reach and inspire users ... second only to Virginia in Civil War sites, joins North Carolina, Maryland, ...

A newly discovered 150-year-old map of the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam shows thousands of graves of Union and Confederate soldiers killed near Sharpsburg, Md., in 1862.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. – Federal government sharpshooters will target hundreds of white-tailed deer at two Civil War battlefields in Maryland this December, launching a multi-year program aimed at ...

Above the Potomac River and below the Mason Dixon Line, a visit to mid-Maryland’s Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area may tick off a few items on your must-do life list.

This Black History Month, there is welcome news that the Maryland legislature may finally banish the official state song — a Civil War anthem rallying support for the Confederacy and maligning ...

While the first shots of the Civil War were fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, the first blood spilled in fighting occurred in Baltimore on April 19, 1861, when a mob of ...