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The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered Conflicting Worlds New Dimensions of the American Civil War T. Michael Parrish, Series Editor CIVIL WAR THE IN MARYLAND RECONSIDERED Edited by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker Foreword by Adam Goodheart Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge Published by Louisiana State University Press lsupress.org Copyright © 2021 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved. Except in the case of brief quotations used in articles or reviews, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any format or by any means without written permission of Louisiana State University Press. Manufactured in the United States of America First printing Designer: Michelle A. Neustrom Typeface: Adobe Caslon Pro Printer and binder: Sheridan Books, Inc. Jacket illustration: Belger Barracks, Baltimore, Maryland. Lithograph and print by E. Sachse & Co., Baltimore, circa 1863. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Mitchell, Charles W., 1954– editor. | Baker, Jean H., editor. Title: The Civil War in Maryland reconsidered / edited by Charles W. Mitchell, and Jean H. Baker. Description: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021] | Series: Conflicting worlds: new dimensions of the American Civil War | Includes bibli- ographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021020468 (print) | LCCN 2021020469 (ebook) | ISBN 978-0- 8071-7289-6 (cloth) | ISBN 978-0-8071-7674-0 (pdf) | ISBN 978-0-8071-7675-7 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Maryland—History—Civil War, 1861–1865. Classification: LCC E566 .C58 2021 (print) | LCC E566 (ebook) | DDC 973.709752—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021020468 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021020469 For Fergus Fulton MacKinnon and Adele Elizabeth Farha, the vanguard of the next generation; and for those Maryland Unionists who wrote, spoke, fought, convened, nursed, and organized to protect the nation at its most perilous moment. This page intentionally left blank ..........................8579$$ HFTL 02-27-0114:30:25 PS CONTENTS ix Foreword Adam Goodheart xi Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Jean H. Baker & Charles W. Mitchell 16 Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland Richard Bell 46 Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Maryland Jessica Millward 62 Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore Martha S. Jones 83 “Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union”: The Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent Charles W. Mitchell 108 Baltimore’s Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath Frank Towers 139 Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and Maryland Frank J. Williams 160 “The Fighting Sons of ‘My Maryland’”: The Recruitment of Union Regiments in Baltimore, 1861– 1865 Timothy J. Orr contents 195 “What I Witnessed Would Only Make You Sick”: Union Soldiers Confront the Dead at Antietam Brian Matthew Jordan 209 Confederate Invasions of Maryland Thomas G. Clemens 236 Achieving Emancipation in Maryland Jonathan W. White 260 Maryland’s Women at War Robert W. Schoeberlein 293 The Failed Promise of Reconstruction Sharita Jacobs- Thompson 312 “F– – k the Confederacy”: The Strange Career of Civil War Memory in Maryland after 1865 Robert J. Cook 329 Contributors 333 Index viii FOREWORD T he Civil War has never quite ended in Maryland. As I write this, 160 years since the first blood was shed, at least one young Confederate still stands unvanquished here on the state’s Eastern Shore. Having stood sentry duty for more than a century in front of the Talbot County court- house, that rebel volunteer—h is boyish features molded in copper—c ontinues stoutly to resist all efforts to remove him. Even as dozens of similar monu- ments have toppled all across the heartland of the former Confederacy, local officials insist that this one serves an essential purpose. It is, in the words of one supporter, “a piece of history and a splendid work of art that tells the story of brother vs. brother where North and South came together, the border state of Maryland.” The lone figure of an infantryman clasping the rebel flag, set on a granite base inscribed with the names of local Confederates, certainly does tell a Civil War story—a lbeit a very partial one. Among many other omissions, it ignores the fact that approximately two- thirds of the men who marched off to war from Talbot County did so wearing the Union blue, including hundreds of African Americans, many of them newly freed from enslavement, who enlisted in the US Colored Troops. Yet its narrative has long been prevalent throughout Maryland, and not only on the rural Eastern Shore: that this was a state kept in the Union only at the point of a bayonet, a place where white supremacy was as intrinsic to regional identity as crab cakes and fried chicken. As late as 1948, citizens of Baltimore gathered to dedicate a massive bronze monument to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, with Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro—a staunch New Deal Democrat—u rging those in the crowd to let the exemplary lives of the Confederates “remind us to be resolute and determined in pre- serving our sacred institutions.” (The mayor’s daughter, Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi, would grow up to order paintings of Confederates removed from the US Capitol.) ix