Westside

Historical marker location:

Downtown Baltimore, Maryland

( Marker is on West Lexington Street east of North Eutaw Street, on the right when traveling west. Reported unreadable.)

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.