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During the Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers turned these fields into campgrounds of dingy tents, smoky campfires, and boiling kettles, while officers drilled troops until Bolivar's grass became precision parade grounds. Cannon shells shrieked here during two battles, and later mourners watched comrades' coffins lowered into Bolivar's disturbed soil. On May 7, 1861, Col Thomas J. Jackson wrote to Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee that the heights west of Bolivar must be strengthened.
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Lovettsville, Maryland · United States
