New York State Monument

Historical marker location:

Sharpsburg, Maryland

( Memorial is on Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1919

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.