TO THE "UNFATHOMABLE SORROW" OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. THE POTOMAC HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MILITARY RIVER, THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY A STRATEGIC AVENUE FOR WAR TIME OFFENSE AND DEFENSE. ♪ IT WAS IN THE ...

From its headwaters in West Virginia to its estuary in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac River was a frontline during the Civil War. On the banks of the river at Harpers Ferry, a federal ...

Darnestown was the site of many Civil War battles ... Offutt’s Crossroads renamed Potomac. Thomas Perry built the Perry Store on the corner of River and Falls roads the year before.

Library of Congress Harpers Ferry, Virginia, lay sleeping on the night of October 16, 1859, as 19 heavily armed men stole down mist-shrouded bluffs along the Potomac River where it joins the ...

The commemoration recalls a tragic 1865 maritime collision on the Potomac River tied to the pursuit ... based group of teenage siblings playing Civil War-era and American folk music on fiddle ...