Existing comment:
Maryland Remembers:
By the dedication of this plaque; she leaves for posterity evidence of her remembrance of her nearly 63,000 native sons who served in the Union forces and the more than 22,000 in those of the Confederacy in the war between the states.
In commemorating the centennial of that great struggle between the citizens of the temporarily divided nation in the 1860's, the Maryland Civil War Centennial Commission did not attempt to decide who was right and who was wrong, or to make decisions on other controversial issues.
On the contrary, its objective was solely to commemorate important events of the war within the state and to collect and preserve documents and information associated with her involvement.
By so doing, it seeks to pay tribute to those who fought and died, as well as to the citizens who, during the Civil War, tried to do their duty as they saw it.
Erected and dedicated October 5, 1964 |