To retain the loyalty of the remaining border states -- Delaware, Maryland ... South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored Troops returned to Talbot County, on Maryland’s Eastern ... one county south) all escaped enslavement and its astounding cruelty.

The events in the Spring of 1861 and Lee’s two invasions of the state aside, Maryland is treated rather poorly in the literature of the Civil War. This collection of over a dozen essays by various ...

Few units in the U.S. Army are as fabled as the Dundalk-based 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment (5th Maryland), better known simply as the 175th ...

My Maryland – still the official state song, despite being deeply offensive to many citizens – as a lens through which to examine the ideological and cultural tensions that underlay the Civil War and ...

The North wanted to block the spread of slavery. They were also concerned that an extra slave state would give the South a political advantage. The South thought new states should be free to allow ...