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The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered /

"Today the literature on Maryland's Civil War is vast and scattered. Given its location surrounding Washington, its unique proportion of enslaved and freeborn African Americans, and its circumstances as the site of significant Civil War battles, the state has always attracted historians. O...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Baker, Jean H. (Editor ), Mitchell, Charles W., 1954- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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