FREDERICKSBURG: Site of Upper Pontoon, looking toward town

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ANTIETAM: In the footsteps of Irish Brigade, near Bloody Lane

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DREWRY'S BLUFF, VA.: Where Union navy was defeated on James River

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ANTIETAM: Site of Union tent hospital at Smoketown, near battlefield

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PETERSBURG: 1st Maine Heavies attacked Colquitt's Salient, June 18, 1864

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ANTIETAM: Section of re-planted East Woods, scene of major action

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BOLIVAR HEIGHTS: Defended by Union army at Battle of Harpers Ferry

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ANTIETAM: Confederates' view of Irish Brigade attack at Bloody Lane

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BRANDY STATION (Va.): Fleetwood Hill, site of cavalry battle June 9, 1863

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CHANCELLORSVILLE: Site of Stonewall Jackson's famous flank attack

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FREDERICKSBURG: Meade Pyramid, site of Union breakthrough

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CEDAR MOUNTAIN, VA. Where Stonewall Jackson whipped Yankees

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PORT REPUBLIC, VA.: The Coaling, where Union army set up defensive line

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ANTIETAM: Joseph Poffenberger farm, where Union army slept

BATTLEFIELD BACKSTORY: Thousands of Union soldiers slept uneasily in the fields on Joseph Poffenberger's farm on Sept. 16, 1862, the night before the Battle of Antietam. At dawn the next day, as fog lingered over what soon would be the most contested place in North America, the First Corps marched from Poffenberger's property and the nearby North Woods and into battle in the 32-acre cornfield of David R. Miller. As they emerged from the strip of woods, they were blasted by Rebel batteries across the Hagerstown Pike, on Nicodemus Heights.
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ANTIETAM: David R. Miller farmhouse near The Bloody Cornfield

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