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

Author(s): Charles W. Mitchell, Jean H. Baker
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Publisher: LSU Press
Year: 2021

Language: English
Pages: 360
City: Baton Rouge

Cover
CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland
Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Maryland
Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore
“Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union”: The Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent
Baltimore’s Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath
Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and Maryland
“The Fighting Sons of ‘My Maryland’”: The Recruitment of Union Regiments in Baltimore, 1861–1865
“What I Witnessed Would Only Make You Sick”: Union Soldiers Confront the Dead at Antietam
Confederate Invasions of Maryland
Achieving Emancipation in Maryland
Maryland’s Women at War
The Failed Promise of Reconstruction
“F––k the Confederacy”: The Strange Career of Civil War Memory in Maryland after 1865
Contributors
Index