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 ...

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 ...

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 ...