Corbit's Charge

A small but extremely important skirmish took place in Westminster on June 29, 1863. During the last days of June, 1862, the "Horros of War" had literally come to the doorsteps of the citizens of Westminster.

Carroll County Driving Tour

The rich farmland of Carroll County skirts the Mason-Dixon line, denoting North from South. Picturesque and serene, the pivotal county remained relatively unscathed during the two years the Civil War raged.

Worcester County Heritage

With its closeness to Virginia, the lower Eastern Shore population was bitterly divided on issues surrounding the Civil War. For most Southern sympathizers on the lower Shore, the federal recruitment of free blacks and fugitive slaves was an intolerable insult.

St. Mary's County African-American Sites

St. Mary's County's website helps tell the story of African Americans in St. Mary’s from Colonial settlement through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and through years of segregation and the struggle for equality.

Frederick County
You can follow in the soldiers’ footsteps along two Maryland Civil War Trail driving tours. Today the story of care and compassion in the wake of battle is told at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.

Carroll County
The Civil War Driving Tour Roads to Gettysburg traces troop movements through Carroll County and provides historical perspective to the fateful days before the Battle of Gettysburg.