Butler opens the Annapolis rail route to Washington
April 25, 1861, Annapolis Junction, Maryland.
- Date
- April 25, 1861
- Where
- Annapolis Junction, Maryland
- What happened
- Rebuilt
- Event
- 5 of 174
With Baltimore closed, Union troops landed at Annapolis to travel by rail through Annapolis Junction. On April 21 Marylanders tore up the telegraph lines, the engine and many sections of track, which troops under Benjamin Butler repaired. The 7th New York reached Washington by this route on April 25, the first troops to do so.
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