Maryland's Eastern Shore

Maryland's Eastern Shore (HM2558)

Location: Denton, MD 21629 Caroline County
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Country: United States of America
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N 38° 53.224', W 75° 49.925'

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Hundreds of Enslaved and Free Black Men Enlisted

Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.

In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here began escaping bondage via the Underground Railroad to the North and Canada, helped on their way by sympathetic blacks and whites and such courageous "conductors" as Harriet Tubman, an Eastern Shore native. During the war, hundreds of enslaved and free black men from the Eastern Shore enlisted in the United States Colored Troops, the black units authorized in January 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Afterward, returning black veterans established towns and emancipation celebrations that still survive today.

Some of the Shore's white residents held fast to the Union, while others supported the Confederacy. Although combat bypassed this area, families here as elsewhere suffered the loss of their men as well as the hardships of war. Newspaper publishers suspected of disloyalty to the Union were arrested. Streams and towns on both sides of the Chesapeake Bay became smugglers' havens as enterprising watermen ran the Federal blockade to supply Confederate forces. When the conflict ended, Eastern Shore residents returned to their fields



and fishing vessels, and the passions of war subsided.

Please drive carefully as you visit Civil War Trails sites on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
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HM NumberHM2558
Series This marker is part of the Maryland Civil War Trails series
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Placed ByMaryland Civil War Trails
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Date Added Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 at 10:01am PST -08:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 427833 N 4304573
Decimal Degrees38.88706667, -75.83208333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 53.224', W 75° 49.925'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 53' 13.44" N, 75° 49' 55.5" W
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Area Code(s)410, 443
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 14 N 2nd St, Denton MD 21629, US
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