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Some of the cities on the list are very surprising. Not at all what I expected to see.
Also, Baltimore is NOT a southern city. It is a northern city so I don't know why it's listed for the south.
Super Cub?
Some of the cities on the list are very surprising. Not at all what I expected to see.
Also, Baltimore is NOT a southern city. It is a northern city so I don't know why it's listed for the south.
19 April, 1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
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"...Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the number of slaves in the United States grew five-fold. During those decades a million enslaved people were sold out of the Carolinas and Chesapeake region, including Maryland, to vast new cotton plantations in the Deep South. In the 1820s, Baltimore was the biggest center of slave trading on the East Coast. Edward Baptist, a Cornell University History Professor, argues in his latest book that, far from dwindling in importance during the 19th century, slavery was the driving force of the American economy..."
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See the ninth stanza of Maryland's state song:
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I hear the distant thunder-hum,
Maryland! My Maryland!
The Old Line's bugle, fife, and drum,
Maryland! My Maryland!
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-
Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! she burns! she'll come! she'll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!
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Maryland remains one of the few states with a symbol of the Confederacy in the state flag.
It's still north, regardless especially since it is east of D.C.
...and what would we call the Army of Northern Virginia these days?