In the south?
It was in Maryland...I used to wait for my bus in front of the old Mary Surratt house that was full of broken beer bottles and fires had been lit in the middle of one of the rooms. I have heard the site was renovated!
I really liked Mary Mudd...she was cute, and I went to a 4-H meeting with her one time (I had no idea what 4-H was!)
Maryland was a slave state. (As was Delaware.) The Emancipation Proclamation only affected slavery in states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, of which Maryland was not one.