The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered


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CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell “Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell “Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” Jessica Millward “Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore,” Martha S. Jones “‘Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union’: The Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent,” Charles W. Mitchell “Baltimore’s Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath,” Frank Towers “Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and Maryland,” Frank J. Williams “The Fighting Sons of ‘My Maryland’: The Recruitment of Union Regiments in Baltimore, 1861–1865,” Timothy J. Orr “‘What I Witnessed Would Only Make You Sick’: Union Soldiers Confront the Dead at Antietam,” Brian Matthew Jordan “Confederate Invasions of Maryland,” Thomas G. Clemens “Achieving Emancipation in Maryland,” Jonathan W. White “Maryland’s Women at War,” Robert W. Schoeberlein “The Failed Promise of Reconstruction,” Sharita Jacobs Thompson “‘F––k the Confederacy’: The Strange Career of Civil War Memory in Maryland after 1865,” Robert J. Cook







Too Afraid to Cry


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- Now Available in Paperback - First study of the Antietam campaign from civilians' perspectives - Many never-before-published accounts of the Battle of Antietam The battle at Antietam Creek, the bloodiest day of the American Civil War, left more than 23,000 men dead, wounded, or missing. Facing the aftermath were the men, women, and children living in the village of Sharpsburg and on surrounding farms. In Too Afraid to Cry, Kathleen Ernst recounts the dramatic experiences of these Maryland citizens--stories that have never been told--and also examines the complex political web holding together Unionists and Secessionists, many of whom lived under the same roofs in this divided countryside.




The Gettysburg Address


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The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”







A Platform for All Parties


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1819-1880


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Third Address to the People of Maryland (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Third Address to the People of Maryland Amidst all the troubles which surround us, it has been to me most fortunate that the paramount allegiance I owe to my country has been perfectly consistent with the loyal attachment I have ever felt for the State of Maryland. Her interests and honor, I believe, are firmly bound up in the Union. If that Union be broken, either on the Potomac or on Mason and Dixon's line, Maryland will receive a heavy blow. To part her from her sisters of the South is to paralyze her left side; whilst to separate her from her sisters of the North is to paralyze the right. Maryland is still in the Union. I believe her only safety is to he found in its perpetuity. It is often said that the boundaries of governments are fixed and controlled by advantages of trade and commerce; that commercial prosperity is the first tiling to be secured in settling the boundaries of a people. There is, however, another question which rises high above commercial advantages. Security is the master-principle. No State can attain high and permanent prosperity unless her boundaries are defensible by her sons; whilst her women and children, her aged and infirm, are safe around their hearths, and her operatives free from interference with their industrial pursuits. Liability to the occupation of the enemy during war, is fatal to any State. It will break down the spirit of a people. It exposes the women and children, the old and the infirm, to a series of insults and wrongs, at the mere contemplation of which the heart sickens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.