Remembering Mary Surratt; Marylander and Southerner

Huntington News ^ | July 5, 2013 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

[BigReb555]

The State Legislature of Maryland prepared to vote on secession in 1861 to join the Southern Confederacy but Federal troops were sent to squash their attempt.

[kabumpo]

Yes, I did miss that. Don’t they have editors anymore?

[SeeSharp]

...but Federal troops were sent to squash their attempt rights.

Fixed it

[warsaw44]

The State Legislature of Maryland prepared to vote on secession in 1861 to join the Southern Confederacy but Federal troops were sent to squash their attempt.

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Dear Author,

The Federal troops did not squash the attempt - they quashed the attempt.

Slight pet peeve about those two words.

[JCBreckenridge]

How many women did he execute?

[JCBreckenridge]

Facts are funny things aren’t they.

[occamrzr06]

Yes, it’s a hopeless campaign, because they could care less!

How much less could they care?

If they could care less, does that imply they care some?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

A crutch to help: “Priss’s blouse’s buttons fell off.”

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The courtesy and respect shown by General Ulysses S. Grant and his men to General Robert E. Lee and his weary men at the surrender and Lincoln’s wish for a peaceful re-uniting of the North and South would be short lived.

I'm thinking that reunited should be a single word, and short-lived should be hyphenated.

[Conserev1]

Yea if you can find the true facts in History now. Revisionist
will oblireate true History in coming years!

[tumblindice]

There is (or was) a Surrattsville. I almost attended the high school there, but wound up going to Oxon Hill. Prince Georges county has gone down hill on a rocket-sled.

[rockrr]

No but bobby lee will do in a pinch.

[tet68]

Interesting. I have been reading Washington Irving and
at the time they did not say splashed but plashed.
Not that that is the same thing, just curious.

[Ole Okie]

The Federal troops did not squash the attempt - they quashed the attempt.

Hmmm. When I was a kid back in Oklahoma, we used to "squish" bugs that attracted our attention for some reason or other. That usually connoted a somewhat juicy end for the unfortunate bugs in question.

Now, I grow squash in my backyard garden (true). I squish bugs that try to make meals of my efforts, thereby quashing their attempts to despoil my squash.

[iowamark]

What next, the Eva Braun Fan Club?

[central_va]

3.5 minutes, pretty quick.

[rockrr]

Just oiled my early rebel warning system ;-)

[jmacusa]

But other than that he was a swell guy.(Not!).

[jmacusa]

Well if it ain't my favorite little Confederate crocus on the compost heap. What's up General? Had me a mighty fine this week celebrating the 150th. anniversary of your side getting it's ass kicked at Gettysburg. Yes sir general, a mighty fine time it was.

[KC_Conspirator]

Mary Surrat was most certainly guilty and complicit.