Northern Central Railway and Heritage Rail Trail Guidebook: Mason-Dixon Sites (Robert L. Williams & Scott Mingus LH) Study of Civil War Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia

Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia is pushing northward through the Shenandoah Valley toward Pennsylvania

by Harriet Buss

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

allowing us to remember them as something more than a stilted pose

and homesickness and worried about loved ones left at home without financial support

Northern Central Railway and Heritage Rail Trail Guidebook: Mason-Dixon Sites (Robert L. Williams & Scott Mingus LH) Study of Civil War Lee’s Army of Northern Virginiaby 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