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Historical marker location:

213 North Talbot Street, St. Michaels, Maryland

( Marker is on Mill Street east of Burns Street.)

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

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.