Posted on 01/19/2022 11:05:26 AM PST by re_tail20
“Most folks in Maryland were much in favor of secession. I believe Delaware wanted to secede as well.”
Well, Delaware was a slave state, though certainly not a major one.
“It was a Marylander that assassinated President Lincoln.”
A lot of people think he was a Virginian. But, a terrapin he was.
I think I read that Delaware had about 200 slaves.
Wasn’t the Booth family from Baltimore?
Indeed!
“Up from the meadows rich with corn
upon that crisp September morn....”
I can see the January 6 Insurrection Committee taking a look at Lincoln jailing the entire Maryland legislature without trial and thinking “what a great idea!”
Commadante Liz Cheney will lead the arresting officers putting the cuffs on every Trump official, explaining to the lapdog press corps that Lincoln did it, therefore it is legal.
“I think I read that Delaware had about 200 slaves.”
I had read that it was more, and from what I recall it was less than 1,000. In any event, it was nominal.
This book should be published in the “fiction” section of the library.
“This book should be published in the “fiction” section of the library.”
Definitely. But this can provide an antidote:
https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/thomas-fleming/a-disease-in-the-public-mind/9780306822018/
I stayed at the Booth's ancestral home "Tudor Hall" in Bel Air, Maryland many years ago. I'd originally read an article in Civil War Times Illustrated about the home. An elderly couple had purchased the property, and had turned it into a bed and breakfast. Prior to my mother's death in 1990, I took her on a trip to Virginia. We attended a reenactment of the surrender at Appomattox, and stayed at the home overnight. I slept in the room that had supposedly been JWB's room when he lived there. He had etched his initials with a diamond in the window at the front of the house. The couple that owned the home started a group called the "Preservation Association for Tudor Hall".
Howard and Dorothy Fox, the owners started having symposiums, and gatherings at the home. They invited published authors and experts to speak once a year. I went to a few of them, and stayed at the home while in attendance. I can't remember who passed first, but they both passed within a very short time. They had no children, and hadn't left Wills, and the house was eventually put up for auction. The group was eventually disbanded. I still have a print that the group sold when it was first formed. It features a drawing of the home, with imprints of Junius Brutus Booth, Edwin Booth, J.W.B., their mother Mary Ann Holmes Booth, etc. It's titled "The Maryland Booths" with "Preservation Association for Tudor Hall" below. It hangs in my living room.
Here's a picture of Dorothy and Howard Fox from 1985.
I have Foxes and Holmes in my family tree, but I haven't figured out if I'm related to Mary Ann Holmes. She was born in England, as were my Holmes family members, as was my Fox line.
The numbers in border states who “fought” for one side can be deceiving. Often they were not really trusted by the feds who agreed to let them stay at home or they only fought if their state was invaded. I had one such ancestor from Kentucky. He served in the union army officially as he was required to do by the draft but his military records show he never left Kentucky.
Lincoln jailed the Maryland legislature without charge or trial because he feared they were about to pass an ordnance of secession. See ex parte Merryman. He also jailed sitting US Congressman from Maryland Henry May again without charge or trial.
You left out the line:
“Huzzah! she spurns the Northern scum.....”
Maryland, My Maryland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CiS4LdSAv0
Good for them. Can they help us get rid of Delaware?
wow... the extended version... tthanks
they removed the confederate plaque outside salisbury courthouse... too racist.
the people in Eastern Maryland wanted to secede. The people living in Central and Western Maryland want to remain in the Union. The State House in Maryland is located in Annapolis, the Capitol of the State, not Baltimore.
No, think again.
Thank you for the correction. How ever Lincoln did send troops to Baltimore.
Missouri was in a similar situation in that some wanted to stay in the Union and others didn’t.
Missouri’s own regular forces fell apart fairly early on and the result was a lot of guerrilla activity.
William Quantrill and “Bloody Bill’’ Anderson most notably.
Thank you for an informative post.
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