Snow's Battery - Port Deposit, MD
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bluesnote
N 39° 36.241 W 076° 06.879
18S E 404306 N 4384402
One of a few Maryland state historical markers in Port Deposit, Maryland.
Waymark Code: WM14TEP
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2021
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The plaque says, "On August 30, 1861 Battery B of the Union Army under the command of Capt. Alonzo Snow was organized at Port Deposit, composed mainly of men from this town and vicinity. The Battery rendered important service to the Federal forces in the Civil War, notably artillery support in two bloody battles of 1862, Malvern Hill on the James River in Virginia and Antietam near Sharpsburg in Maryland."
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