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Like seahawk said, If you are coming up 81, you will pass VMI, a bit north was the battle of Newmarket. Not as big as Vicksburg or Fredericksburg, but right off the interstate.

In Lexington, Robert E. Lee was the president of a local college there after the civil war-
A good video I was watching a bit back (I shared it here before, and somehow timemarked it into the video, but I'd start from the beginning):



Further north/ depending on route you run into -( I copy and pasted a bit from another website)

Harpers Ferry, WV- The topography of the town is amazing from a siege standpoint. The physical scenery of the town is also spectacular.

Antietam, MD is a national historical park and has a battle museum

Frederick, MD has the National Museum of Civil War Medicine

If you can arrange a night stay at Harper's Ferry at a B&B, do that. Just a wonderful place. I stayed there when I was driving a car I bought back from Penn. Just a cool place with really good history.

Head on a course a little East and you could hit Appomattox and Richmond for some history on the way up.

Really can't go wrong.