[BroJoeK]

Smokin' Joe: "I grew up in Md. Legend has it four people in the county voted for Lincoln, and they were asked to leave.
Breckinridge carried the state."

John Breckenridge's Southern Democrats in Maryland narrowly defeated John Bell's Constitutional Union (former Whigs plus "Know-Nothings").
Indeed, Constitutional Union was the heart of Maryland political views, which had previously elected Know-Nothing Thomas Hicks as their governor.
Hicks was largely responsible for keeping Maryland in the Union, despite some strongly held Confederate sympathies.

Indeed, had Lincoln not been on the ballot in Maryland, John Bell's Constitutional Union party would most likely have carried the state.

Maryland Governor (1858-1862), Know-Nothing Thomas J Hicks:

[HandyDandy]

BroJoe, recall that SmoJoe did say his “county”. He didn’t say the whole state of Maryland. He also provided a link to a whole bunch of interesting electoral maps.

[Smokin' Joe]

Maryland Governor (1858-1862), Know-Nothing Thomas J Hicks:

Whose picture should be next to 'scalywag' in the dictionary. He ordered the State Militia to muster their arms at their armories and wait for the call to arms...which he never issued, even as the State was being invaded.