The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered

CONTENTS:

Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell

Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland, Richard Bell

Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre-Civil War Maryland, Jessica Millward

Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore, Martha S. Jones

‘Maryland Is This Day … True to the American Union’ The Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent, Charles W. Mitchell

Baltimore’s Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath, Frank Towers

Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and Maryland, Frank J. Williams

The Fighting Sons of ‘My Maryland’ The Recruitment of Union Regiments in Baltimore, 1861-1865, Timothy J. Orr

‘What I Witnessed Would Only Make You Sick’ Union Soldiers Confront the Dead at Antietam, Brian Matthew Jordan

Confederate Invasions of Maryland, Thomas G. Clemens

Achieving Emancipation in Maryland, Jonathan W. White

Maryland’s Women at War, Robert W. Schoeberlein

The Failed Promise of Reconstruction, Sharita Jacobs Thompson

‘F–k the Confederacy’ The Strange Career of Civil War Memory in Maryland after 1865, Robert J. Cook