This week marks the 150th anniversaries of the ends of the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the pivotal confrontations of the Civil War. While Boston was hundreds of miles from Gettysburg—and 1,500, give or take, from Vicksburg—the city and its environs did not escape history. From the inn where John Wilkes Booth stayed a week before he shot President Lincoln to the Beacon Hill alleyway that was a hiding place along the Underground Railroad to the Harbor island that served as a prison for top-level Confederates, here are 15 sites that remind us of the war a century and a half later.
· Our Curbed Maps archive [Curbed Boston]