1st Lieutenant John E. Buffington

Historical marker location:

Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Taneytown, Maryland

( Memorial is on Roberts Mill Road east of Pump House Road, on the left 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.