Front Royal is a lost battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley but this descriptive marker bears witness to the phrase of the brother’s war, as both the Union and the Confederacy raised troops from Maryland, as they did so with the other border states.

the War
Between
the States

Front Royal,
Virginia
23^th May 1862

This is a descriptive marker in Front Royal, which is in the Shenandoah Valley and one of a series of battles in General Thomas Jackson’s famed Valley Campaign.