Historical Marker
Whites Ferry
Historical marker location:
24801 Whites Ferry Road, Dickerson, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Whites Ferry Road, 0.1 miles south of River Road, on the right when traveling west.)
Invasion or Liberation?. Antietam Campaign 1862.
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.