The small, whitewashed Dunker Church is at the corner of Smoketown Road and the Hagerstown Pike. It was the objective for the Federal attacks on the northern part of the battlefield, if only because its whitewashed walls could sometimes be seen through the thick gunsmoke. All morning Union attacks made for the church only to be driven back in desperate fighting. By the end of the day the church was still in Confederate hands, overflowing with the wounded of both sides.

Today a trail from the nearby Visitor Center loops to Smoketown Road and back, passing some of the bloodiest ground of the Civil War and the meeting place of the pacifist group that found themselves at its very center.

Click on the map or select from the menu below to see the page for any monument or marker:

monuments
State of Maryland
Purnell (Maryland) Legion
3rd Maryland Volunteer Infantry Regiment
13th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment
State of New York
20th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
34th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
59th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
5th, 7th & 66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiments
125th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment
O.T. Reilly

markers
2nd Corps
Greene’s Division
Goodrich’s Brigade
Hays’ Brigade
Jackson’s Command 
Kershaw’s Brigade (1)
Kershaw’s Brigade (2)
Longstreet’s Reserve Artillery
Manning’s Brigade
McLaw’s Division
Stainrook’s Brigade
Tyndale’s Brigade
Walker’s Division

places
The Dunker Church