(1836-1917)
On June 19, 1863, during the War Between the States (1861-65), Private Owens of the 1st Maryland Artillery, Confederate States of America, performed heroically at the Battle of Stephenson's Depot. Owens, born and raised in West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, single-handedly held off the Union forces, continually firing his cannon after his compatriots had been wounded. General Robert E. Lee would call this battle "The Thermopylae of the War". For this action Owens was posthumously awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor. Benjamin Welch Owens represented all the Maryland boys who fought for "a war of ideas, political conceptions, and loyalty to ancient ideals of English freedom."| HM Number | HMEN0 |
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| Year Placed | 1999 |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Saturday, September 27th, 2014 at 8:08am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 355575 N 4298183 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 38.82060000, -76.66363333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 38° 49.236', W 76° 39.818' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 38° 49' 14.16" N, 76° 39' 49.08" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 410, 301, 240 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 800-864 Mt Zion Marlboro Rd, Lothian MD 20711, US |
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