Near here is White's Ford, not to be confused with the later White's Ferry downstream. Both were named after Elijah Viers White, a local Confederate cavalryman renowned, or notorious, depending on one's sympathies. Like at Conrad's Ferry, Confederate armies crossed here several times, and there was a battle fought here among October's falling leaves, a desperate rear-guard action fought by J.E.B. Stuart in 1862.
Milepost 38.7
Photo Credit: C&O Canal National Historical Park
