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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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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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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MANASSAS, VA.: Looking toward Stone House from Henry Hill

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ANTIETAM: 40-Acre Cornfield, where 16th Connecticut was shattered

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GAINES' MILL, VA.: Behind guns of Union army, routed here June 27, 1862

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BENTONVILLE, N.C.: Where Union XX Corps whipped Rebels, March 19, 1865

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MANASSAS, VA.: Rebels on Henry Hill at First Bull Run, July 21, 1861

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BENTONVILLE, N.C.: Harper property, site of makeshift Federal hospital

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ANTIETAM: David R. Miller cornfield, where fighting raged Sept. 17, 1862

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ANTIETAM: Where James Longstreet helped man the guns

BATTLEFIELD BACKSTORY: After the Confederates were finally forced from the Sunken Road at Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862, a wave of Yankees threatened the Rebels' thinly held center on Henry Piper's farm. A battery of Miller's artillery had been positioned near the Sunken Road at about 10:30 a.m. to support the infantry in the lane. Later, one of the battery's caissons was hit by a Union artillery shell, and Confederate artillerymen were killed or injured, leaving the gun crews short during a critical juncture in the battle for the Rebels. Among the soldiers to come to the rescue was General James Longstreet himself, wearing carpet slippers instead of boots because of a sore heel. He held the bridles of horses of some of his staff, who went into action as artillerymen in Piper's apple orchard.
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