Dedicated: 1901.
Location: Manchester, Maryland. Located in front of the elementary school on York Street, near Trinity United Church of Christ. (The church dates to the Civil War and was completed in 1864.)
Description: Cast iron tablet mounted on a fluted cast iron post. Inscription is painted in a contrasting color.
Inscription:
Headquarters Army of the Potomac moved from Middleburg to Taneytown. First Corps marched from Emmitsburg to Marsh Run. Third Corps from Taneytown to Bridgeport. Fifth Corps from Liberty via Johnsonville Union Bridge and Union to Union Mills. Sixth Corps from New Windsor to Manchester. Twelfth Corps from Taneytown and Bruceville to Littlestown. First and Second brigades First cavalry division from near Fairfield via Emmitsburg to Gettysburg Second cavalry division from New Windsor to Westminster and thence to Manchester. Third cavalry division from Littlestown to Hanover and the Artillery Reserve from Bruceville to Taneytown.
Fight at Hanover, Pa. and skirmishes at Westminster Md. and at Fairfield and Sporting Hill near Harrisburg Pa.