Iglehart

Historical marker location:

1708 Mansion Ridge Road, Annapolis, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Mansion Ridge Road, 0.1 miles east of Mansion Woods Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Maryland was a border state during the Civil War: During the Civil War, Maryland was a border state that remained in the Union but had many sympathizers with the Confederacy. The state was strategically important because it was located between Washington D.C. and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.