Budds Ferry

One

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Mile

Site of a Union Battery, November, 1861 to March 1862. The movements of Confederate troops across the Potomac River in Virginia were observed from a balloon above this point.

Marker is at the intersection of Riverside Road (Maryland Route 224) and Budd's Ferry Place, on the left when traveling north on Riverside Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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