New Windsor

Historical marker location:

New Windsor, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Maryland Route 31) and Green Valley Road (Maryland Route 75), on the left on Main Street.)

Village by Moonlight. Gettysburg Campaign.

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.