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To: BroJoeK; All
You very well know there were strong secessionist elements in both Missouri and Kentucky. You perhaps have heard of John Hunt Morgan and Joe Shelby. NM and AZ territories were south of the Missouri Compromise Line and therefore in the Southern political zone. Maryland had a lot of pro secessionists in the eastern half including the city of Baltimore. The Lincoln regime declared martial law and ruled the state at gun point for the duration, arresting the entire legislature and the President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad among several thousand others. Really are you that ignorant or just firing off self-righteous equine excrement to see if any sticks?
461 posted on 01/16/2019 8:32:11 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: robowombat

Only 17 members of the Maryland legislature were arrested.
Most were freed within a few months. The remainder were freed by the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act of Mar 3,1863.

“Our State will not I hope secede I have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good President, at least we ought to give him a fair trial & then if he commits some overt act all the South will be a unit.” John H. Morgan.

Morgan never served in Missouri. His combat in Kentucky was as a cavalry officer in the Confederate Army.

John W. Garrett was President of the B&ORR from 1858 to 1884. He was never arrested by Federal authorities. As a matter of fact he became a confidant of Lincoln and accompanied the President on several trips to battle fields in Maryland. On one occasion he pulled out all stops and rapidly moved Union troops from Petersburg to Washington DC in time to help repel General Early’s attack on Fort Stevens in July of 1864. President Lincoln commended Garrett as “The right arm of the Federal Government in the aid he rendered the authorities in preventing the Confederates from seizing Washington and securing its retention as the Capital of the Loyal States.”[

Really are you that ignorant or just firing off self-righteous equine excrement to see if any sticks?


472 posted on 01/16/2019 1:05:05 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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