Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series! Our next lecture will be: "In the Wake of Antietam: The Loudoun Valley Campaign of 1862" by Kevin Pawlak. Cost is $6 per person. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation.

Synopsis

Following the bloodiest single day in American history, September 17, 1862, and the conclusion of the Battle of Antietam, the Federal Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia rested and refitted on either side of the Potomac River. By late October 1862, urged on by President Abraham Lincoln and his recently announced Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, the Federal army crossed into Virginia once more, armed with a plan to capture Richmond and defeat the Confederacy. The ensuing battles that erupted in the Loudoun Valley and beyond raged for two weeks and added several hundred casualties to the nation’s…