Died near Sudbrook in Baltimore County
Recollections of a Maryland Confederate soldier and staff officer under ...
By McHenry Howard p. 280
https://books.google.com/books?id=5e717kjFdPIC&pg=PA280&lpg=PA280&dq=confederate+soldier+Major+Eugene+Blackford&source=bl&ots=ctJP1GZ9XK&sig=IwedCjrmQdXdDKckE6Yb9jERoXw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDh7CFyqHNAhVS2mMKHWOXBkk4ChDoAQg0MAY#v=onepage&q=confederate%20soldier%20Major%20Eugene%20Blackford&f=false

. After the war he settled in Maryland, working as a farmer and a teacher, before dying on February 4, 1908.
http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-gettysburg-major-eugene-blackford-and-the-fifth-alabama-sharpshooters.htm

Eugene Blackford was born 11 April 1839. After attending the University of Virginia, he accepted a teaching position in Alabama and when the Civil War started, became a major in the Fifth Alabama Infantry. After the war, Eugene became a dairy farmer at Cleve, Pikesville, Md. He married Rebecca Chapman Gordon and they had three children: Emily Chapman, Eugene, and William Gordon. Eugene died in 1907.
http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Blackford_Family.html