Their immediate goal was to loot the town’s stores — stealing chickens, boots, hats, shoes, tobacco, biscuits, and whatever ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored Troops returned to Talbot County, on Maryland’s Eastern ... you could also free you.” Frederick Douglass (who once worked at ...

Courtesy: Historical Society of Frederick County, MD Originally called the Confederate ... not slavery, caused the Civil War, and that Confederate soldiers were heroic and defeated militarily ...

The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern ... would last into the Civil War.

The (SMCC) invites the community to a discussion of the Bear Me Into Freedom Project, led by Jeff McGuiness, on Monday, May ...

Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins is pushing back against a legislative proposal that would block counties in Maryland from participating ... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed ...