Farthest North of the Confederate Army

On the morning of June twenty-eighth, eighteen sixty-three, Confederate outposts from the Army of Northern Virginia reached a farm just south of here, which the state marker names as the northernmost point reached by an organized Confederate force during the Civil War. They had ridden ahead of the main column advancing toward Carlisle when word arrived that Union troops were holding Sterrett's Gap. The scouts turned back.

Within days, Lee's entire army would reverse course entirely, funneling south toward a crossroads town called Gettysburg. From this Pennsylvania hillside the Confederate tide reached its high-water mark and began the long retreat that would end nearly two years later at Appomattox. The farm where the scouts paused is long gone, but this marker has stood here since nineteen twenty-nine, noting the exact edge of the South's farthest reach.