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Category Archives: Maryland
Lincoln Assassination Resources
Due to the reconfiguration of this blog, here are the links to the stories on Frederick Aiken, Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination, for your convenience. Frederick Aiken Biography Frederick Aiken The Attorney – Historians Weigh In Rare Aiken … Continue reading
Frederick Aiken The Attorney – Historians Weigh In
From the moment that the American Film Company released The Conspirator, questions have been raised about the films accuracy regarding the lead counsel, Frederick Aiken. Was he, as FoxNews host Bill O’Reilly would opine, a “pinhead” or a “patriot?” You be … Continue reading
150 Years Ago: Battle of Ball’s Bluff Oct. 21, 1861
Ball’s Bluff was a small battle by the standards of the Civil War, but it had ramifications far beyond its size. It was only the second significant battle in the east, and received a great deal of attention in both … Continue reading
Posted in 1861, Battlefield Preservation, Casualties, Cemeteries, Commemoration, Graves, Lincoln, Maryland, This Date in Civil War History, This Week in the Civil War
Tagged Balls Bluff, Edward Baker, General Charles P. Stone, General George B. McClellan, Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, President Abraham Lincoln, Virginia
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Maryland seeks to buy 14 acres of land near South Mountain Civil War battlefield for $55,600
MIDDLETOWN, Md. (AP) — A Department of Natural Resources official says the state of Maryland is seeking to buy some land near the South Mountain Civil War battlefield. John Braskey told The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown newspaper on Tuesday that the … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, Battlefield Preservation, Maryland
Tagged 1862, Abraham Lincoln, acquisition, Andrew Schotz, Battle of Antietam, battlefield land, Central Maryland Heritage League, Confederate, Department of Natural Resources, easement, Emancipation Proclamation, Federal, Frederick County, Hagerstown, John Braskey, Mahaffey Woods, Maryland, Preservation, real estate, Reno Monument, September 14, South Mountain, State Board of Public Works, Terry Baker, Washington County, Wise South Field
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Public re-enactment of South Mountain, Antietam battles will be held in 2012
Two-day event on private land near Boonsboro will mark 150th anniversary of Civil War battles By HEATHER KEELS heather.keels@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN— An estimated 4,000 Civil War re-enactors will stage a public re-enactment of the battles of South Mountain and Antietam on … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, Maryland, Reenactment
Tagged 1862, Antietam, Boonsboro, Boonsboro's Washington Monument, Brittany's Hope Foundation, Central Maryland Heritage League, Chris Anders, Crampton's Gap, Dan Spedden, Ed Wenschhof, Fox's Gap, Gathland State Park, George Alfred Townsend, Hagerstown, Hagerstown-Washington Convention and Visitors Bureau, Harpers Ferry, Maryland 67, Maryland Campaign, Rear Rank Productions, Reenactment, September, Sesquicentennial, South Mountain, South Mountain Recreation Area, South Mountain State Battlefield, special-needs children, The Southern Division, Thomas B. Riford, Turner's Gap, U.S. 40, Washington Monument State Park, West Virginia
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On this date: April 24, 1865 – Hancock issues proclamation
On this date, 146 years ago – Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock ordered the following handbills printed and distributed to free blacks in the communities of Virginia and Maryland along the Potomac River. John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, and … Continue reading
Posted in 1865, African-American, Assassination, Booth, Lincoln, Maryland, Surratt
Tagged Booth, Frederick Aiken, Free Black, Mary Surratt, Winfield Scott Hancock
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‘The Conspirator’ takes in $7 million in ten days
Here are the latest numbers for the first ten days of ‘The Conspirator’ courtesy of the-numbers.com. The film had a budget of $25 million and has now taken in just under $7 million in ten days at the box office. … Continue reading
Posted in 1865, Assassination, Booth, Frederick Aiken, Lincoln, Maryland, Surratt
Tagged Frederick Aiken, Lincoln Assassination, Mary Surratt, The Conspirator
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‘The Conspirator’ aims for accuracy
By Lewis Beale - Newsday NEW YORK — On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Union troops stationed in Fort Sumter, S.C. The barrage marked the opening shots of the Civil War, a national tragedy that killed more than 600,000 people, … Continue reading
Posted in 1865, Assassination, Booth, Film, Frederick Aiken, Lincoln, Maryland, Reenactment, Surratt
Tagged Lincoln Assassination
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Civil War Sites in Maryland
BY TIMOTHY B. WHEELER Baltimore Sun While the first shots of the Civil War were fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, the first blood spilled in fighting occurred in Baltimore on April 19, 1861, when a … Continue reading
Posted in Frederick Aiken, Maryland, Museums, Surratt
Tagged Civil War, Maryland, Museum, Sesquicentennial
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Harford divided in Civil War
Looking back 150 years to a county as split as the country on slavery and Union By Bryna Zumer of The Aegis www.exploreharford.com Posted 4/12/11 First of two parts In early 1861, Priscilla Griffith, a prominent Harford County diarist, complained … Continue reading
