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The Journey: Maryland, My Maryland

Sept. 6, 1862, a Saturday. Wrote Spartan Band Private and diarist Albert Wymer Henley, “Our haversacks full of rations, we were again set into motion.” The 13th tried to cross the Potomac River at White’s Ford, northeast of Leesburg, where … Continue reading

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