Camp Hill during the Civil War

In May 1862, during Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign, Union soldiers constructed a line of defenses parallel to the top of the ridge to protect Harpers Ferry from attack from the west. Throughout the rest of the Civil War, hundreds of Federal soldiers encamped on this slope, protected by the earthworks stretching across the crest of Camp Hill. During the summer of 1862, Company A, 22nd New York State Militia, was photographed near here, with a house standing behind the soldiers with a cannon in front of it.

Lovettsville, Maryland · United States