Prince Georges County And The Civil War

Author : Nathania A. Branch Miles
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625846843
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prince George's County and the Civil War written by Nathania A. Branch Miles and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bordered by the Federal capital but separated from Virginia and the Confederacy only by the Potomac River, the citizens of Prince George's County found themselves on the front lines of the Civil War. As Maryland's largest slave-owning county, some--including members of the Bowie and Surratt families--joined the Confederacy. Many remained loyal to the Union, losing sons and property for the cause. Three forts in the county were dedicated to the capital's defense: Fort Foote, Fort Washington and Fort Lincoln. This did not prevent Confederate general Jubal Early's troops from invading in July 1864. The Rebel forces blew up rail lines in Beltsville and took the Rossborough Inn near the Maryland Agricultural College--now the University of Maryland, College Park--as their headquarters. "Prince George's County and the Civil War: Life on the Border" charts the course of a community caught in the midst of the bloodiest conflict in American history.

Author : L. Tilden Moore
Publisher : Willow Bend Books
ISBN 13 : 9781585497690
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1890 Special Census of the Civil War Veterans of the State of Maryland written by L. Tilden Moore and published by Willow Bend Books. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I: Garrett, Allegany and Washington Counties. Volume II: Carroll, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George's Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's Counties. Volume III: Howard, Anne Arundel, Harford, Cecil and Ken Counties and the United States Naval Academy. Volume IV: Caroline, Dorchester, Queen Anne, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester Counties.

Author : William G. Thomas
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300234120
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Freedom written by William G. Thomas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history"A revelatory and fluidly written chronicle. . . . An essential account of an overlooked chapter in the history of American slavery."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "A work of remarkable honesty and humanity that should inform any conversation on the legacy of slavery. Please read it."--Lauret Savoy, author of Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the America Landscape and a descendant of freedom petitioners For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation's capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.

Author : Henry C. Peden, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585494316
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Patriots of Prince George's County, Maryland, 1775-1783 written by Henry C. Peden, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a research tool for identifying Marylanders from Prince Georges County, Maryland, who served in the Army or Navy during the Revolutionary War; signers of oaths and non-signers. Vital statistics, payroll, commissions, dates of birth, and dates of marriage are included when available. Wives and children are listed.

Author : J. Thomas Scharf
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849658651
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Western Maryland written by J. Thomas Scharf and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preparation of "History of Western Maryland", one of the most voluminous works on the history of that party of the United States, imposed a vast responsibility and an immense amount of labor. In the compilation of this history no authority of importance has been overlooked. The author has carefully examined every source of information open to him, and has availed himself of every fact that could throw new light upon, or impart additional interest to, the subject under consideration. Besides consulting the most reliable records and authorities, over fifteen thousand communications were addressed to persons supposed to be in possession of facts or information calculated to add value to the work. Recourse has not only been had to the valuable libraries of Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, and Hagerstown, but the author and his agents have visited personally the entire territory embraced in the six counties of Western Maryland, spending much time in each district, examining ancient newspapers, musty manuscripts, family, church, and society records, conversing with the aged inhabitants, and collecting from them orally many interesting facts never before published, and which otherwise, in all probability, would soon have been lost altogether. In addition to the material partly used in the preparation of his " Chronicles" and " History of Baltimore City and County" and " History of Maryland," the author has consulted an immense number of pamphlets, consisting of county and town documents, reports of societies, associations, corporations, and historical discourses, and, in short, everything of a fugitive character that might in any way illustrate the history of Western Maryland. Sketches of the rise, progress, and present condition of the various religious denominations, professions, political parties, and charitable and benevolent institutions, societies, and orders form a conspicuous feature of the work. Manufacturing, commercial, and agricultural interests have also a prominent place. An account of the county school system is also given, and a history of the various institutions of learning of which Western Maryland has every reason to be proud. Many of the facts recorded, both statistical and historical, may seem trivial or tediously minute to the general reader, and yet such facts have a local interest and sometimes a real importance. Considerable space has also been given to biographies of leading and representative men, living and dead, who have borne an active part in the various enterprises of life, and who have become closely identified with the history of Frederick, Washington, Montgomery, Allegany, Carroll, and Garrett Counties. The achievements of the living must not be forgotten, nor must the memories of those who have passed away be allowed to perish. It is the imperative duty of the historian to chronicle their public and private efforts to advance the great interests of society. Their deeds are to be recorded for the benefit of those who follow them; they, in fact, form part of the history of their communities, and their successful lives add to the glory of the Commonwealth. A distinguishing feature of the work is its statistics of the various districts into which the six counties of Western Maryland are divided. In them the reader is brought into close relation with every part of Western Maryland. This is volume two out of six, covering the Civil War and Frederick County.

Author : Charles W. Mitchell
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176745
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered written by Charles W. Mitchell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : F. Edward Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680349863
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maryland Milita in the War of 1812 Volume 6 written by F. Edward Wright and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Baltimore, Norman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women of the South in War Times written by and published by Baltimore, Norman. This book was released on 1920 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes narratives, reminiscences, and diary excerpts of Elizabeth Waring Duckett, Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, Bettie Taylor Phillips, Mrs. Ella K. Trader, Mrs. C.C. Oppenheim, and Mrs. A.H. Gay.

Author : Barbara Jeanne Fields
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300040326
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground written by Barbara Jeanne Fields and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of slavery in Maryland and discusses the conditions of life of Maryland's slaves and free Blacks.

Author : Charles W. Mitchell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886218
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maryland Voices of the Civil War written by Charles W. Mitchell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most contentious event in our nation's history, the Civil War deeply divided families, friends, and communities. Both sides fought to define the conflict on their own terms -- Lincoln and his supporters struggled to preserve the Union and end slavery, while the Confederacy waged a battle for the primacy of local liberty or "states' rights." But the war had its own peculiar effects on the four border slave states that remained loyal to the Union. Internal disputes and shifting allegiances injected uncertainty, apprehension, and violence into the everyday lives of their citizens. No state better exemplified the vital role of a border state than Maryland -- where the passage of time has not dampened debates over issues such as the alleged right of secession and executive power versus civil liberties in wartime. In Maryland Voices of the Civil War, Charles W. Mitchell draws upon hundreds of letters, diaries, and period newspapers to portray the passions of a wide variety of people -- merchants, slaves, soldiers, politicians, freedmen, women, clergy, civic leaders, and children -- caught in the emotional vise of war. Mitchell reinforces the provocative notion that Maryland's Southern sympathies -- while genuine -- never seriously threatened to bring about a Confederate Maryland. Maryland Voices of the Civil War illuminates the human complexities of the Civil War era and the political realignment that enabled Marylanders to abolish slavery in their state before the end of the war.