Northern Central Railway and Heritage Rail Trail Guidebook: Mason-Dixon Sites (Robert L. Williams & Scott Mingus LH) Study of Civil War After days of hard marching

After days of hard marching

by Harriet Buss

Its soldiers swept through the East Woods and the Miller Cornfield

and many others—ordinary folk thrust into harrowing circumstances—and their struggle to recover from their unexpected and often devastating losses

Andrew McIlwaine Bell earned a PhD in history from George Washington University and works at the University of Virginia

Northern Central Railway and Heritage Rail Trail Guidebook: Mason-Dixon Sites (Robert L. Williams & Scott Mingus LH) Study of Civil War After days of hard marchingby Robert L. Williams & Scott Mingus The Northern Central Railway was the primary railroad between Baltimore, Maryland, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and point farther north from the mid 1800s for more than 100 years. Part of the route on both sides of the Mason Dixon Line is now a heritage rail trail, highlighted by a few restored stations. Abraham Lincoln rode these rails on his way to and from Gettysburg to deliver the famed Gettysburg Address in