Stone Sentinels: Battlefield Monuments of the Civil War
From 1861 until 1865 great armies fought each other in a terrible Civil War for their competing visions of America. Gettysburg, Antietam: the places where they clashed are written in blood in our nation's history. The armies are long gone, but they have left behind sentinels that still guard their memory, messages carefully crafted by the survivors and carved in stone for future generations.
Stone Sentinels explores the battlefield monuments of our nation's Civil War. There are photographs of each monument, many with detailed closeups. The inscriptions are provided as live text. Most monuments have links to Google Maps to help in finding them on the battlefield - and you can see most of them from the air in the high resolution satellite view!
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| Gettysburg was the largest and deadliest battle of the war and one of the turning points of history. From the First Shot Marker to the High Water Mark, you can visit over 800 monuments and historical markers to individuals, regiments, batteries and brigades, read their inscriptions and learn their stories.
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| Antietam, also known as Sharpsburg, was the single bloodiest day of American history and the end of Lee's first invasion of the North. Over 300 monuments and historical markers commemorate those who struggled on a battlefield that is little changed from September of 1862.
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| Monocacy, the "battle that saved Washington" from Jubal Early's invasion of 1864, tours the handful of monuments from the small but strategically important battle outside Frederick, Maryland.
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| South Mountain visits three seldom-visited gaps in the montain range in Maryland that were the scenes of desperate fighting leading that led up to the battle of Antietam.
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