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Maryland's Eastern Shore
Hundreds of Enslaved and Free Black Men Enlisted
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By Mike Stroud, October 15, 2011 | |
| | | 1. Maryland's Eastern Shore Marker | | |
Inscription. 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, | | | | 
By Maryland's Eastern Shore Marker, ` | |
| | | 2. Company of the 4th USCT | | |
and the passions of war subsided.
Please drive carefully as you visit Civil War Trails sites on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Erected by Maryland Civil War Trails.
Marker series. This marker is included in the Maryland Civil War Trails marker series.
Location. 38° 0.279′ N, 75° 32.606′ W. Marker is in Pocomoke City, Maryland, in Worcester County. Marker can be reached from Ocean Highway (U.S. 13) when traveling north. Click for map. Located at the Travel Information Center North. Marker is in this post office area: Pocomoke City MD 21851, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, as the crow flies. Boundary Line Maryland - Virginia (a few steps from this marker); Mark O. Pilchard (a few steps from this marker); Sturgis One Room School (approx. 5.1 miles away); NASA Wallops Flight Facility (approx. 6.5 miles away in Virginia); Court House Hill (approx. 6.7 miles away); Rehoboth (approx. 6.7 miles away); Coventry Parish Church (approx. 6.8 miles away); Makemie Monument Park (approx. 7 miles away in Virginia). Click for a list of all markers in Pocomoke City. |
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| | | 3. Harriet Tubman - an Eastern Shore native - abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy | | |
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| | | 4. Maryland Map of the Eastern Shore Civil War sites and... Steamer Maryland | | Frederick Douglass - a leader of the abolitionist movement | | |
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Credits. This page originally submitted on December 30, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 255 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on December 31, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
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