Tag Archives: Maryland

fictional preservation?

Posted on May 5, 2018 by SUMPTER

An editorial in the April 25, 1868 issue of Harper’s Weekly lamented all the historic Revolutionary War era structures that were being left to deteriorate and hoped that three other “sacred” buildings could be preserved. One of those structures related … Continue reading →

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corrections

Posted on January 23, 2017 by SUMPTER

From The New-York Times January 24, 1867: No More Negroes to be Sold in Maryland … ANNAPOLIS, Wednesday, Jan. 23. The Maryland Legislature have passed an act abolishing an article in the code permitting the sale of negroes into slavery … Continue reading →

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Whose Maryland?

Posted on September 12, 2015 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this week Gotham’s Times thought it was pretty funny that a presumed states-rights Democrat would appeal to the federal Constitution to negate Maryland’s election law. From The New-York Times September 8, 1865: The Democracy and State Rights. … Continue reading →

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constitutional

Posted on October 18, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this month voters in Maryland narrowly approved a new state constitution that outlawed slavery. The votes of Maryland soldiers serving in the Union army proved to be decisive. President Lincoln probably was pleased with the Maryland vote … Continue reading →

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brothers’ war?

Posted on June 4, 2014 by SUMPTER

Some Southerners didn’t take kindly to famous native Marylanders who were unabashedly pro-Union. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch June 3, 1864: Edwin Boot[h] at the North. –This young actor, a native of the State of Maryland, and whose engagements in … Continue reading →

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border fanatic

Posted on March 12, 2014 by SUMPTER

Maryland might have been a border state, bordering on Virginia, as a matter of fact, but that didn’t mean one of its representatives in the Yankee Congress couldn’t be a Blacker Republican that President Lincoln. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch … Continue reading →

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No Pressure

Posted on September 15, 2012 by SUMPTER

Just save the American republic and millions yet to be born From the Richmond Daily Dispatch September 16, 1862: The young Napoleon Redivivus. McClellan, like the straw to the drawing man, is again important at the North. The Herald, of … Continue reading →

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“like the Pope’s bull against the comet!”

Posted on September 14, 2012 by SUMPTER

In this letter dated 150 years ago yesterday President Lincoln admits to some religious folk from Chicago that the question of proclaiming liberty to the slaves “is on my mind, by day and night, more than any other.” But he … Continue reading →

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“The hour of Maryland’s deliverance”

Posted on September 11, 2012 by SUMPTER

And time for a little retaliation The Richmond editors are rallying the citizens to support the Confederate armies as they move to the offensive. I like the image of the Union army being like an eternal tide that advances into … Continue reading →

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Mary Risks Maryland

Posted on May 11, 2011 by admin

And, “Hunger Is the Best Sauce” Apparently Mrs. Lincoln is going to visit Robert Todd at Harvard. Here’s a story about her trip from the White House to Astor House. From The New-York Times May 12, 1861: FROM WASHINGTON TO … Continue reading →

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