Gettysburg Campaign

Gettysburg Campaign is a Virginia historical marker in Loudoun County, dedicated 2017.

Rte. 193 Georgetown Pike at intersection with Rte. 602, Seneca Road

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Confederate Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, operating well east of Gen. Robert E. Lee, consolidated three brigades of about 5,000 cavalry and horse artillery here on the evening of 27 June 1863. Separated from Lee by the vast Union army then crossing the Potomac River just upstream at Edwards Ferry, Stuart's command traveled this road toward the treacherous and little-known Rowser’s Ford. Eventually under total darkness, Stuart’s troopers completed their crossing of the half-mile-wide, rain-swollen Potomac in the early hours of 28 June. This crossing was one of several obstacles that inhibited Stuart’s timely arrival at Gettysburg.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1857 · Delaware And Maryland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Map Of N. Eastern Virginia And Vicinity Of Washington (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Montgomery. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · N.E. Virginia, Washington 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1908 · Seneca, Maryland (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Map Of N. Eastern Virginia And Vicinity Of Washington, 1862, covering the location of Gettysburg Campaign, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map Of N. Eastern Virginia And Vicinity Of Washington, 1862, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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