When did the Civil War begin? Most say April 1861, but many historians say it started earlier.
Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...
Abolitionist Harriett Tubman Named General In MD National Guard
ANNAPOLIS, MD — Civil War spy and Underground Railroad ... The route travels through Dorchester County on Maryland’s Eastern ...
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Harriet Tubman
An escaped slave who became one of the best-known "conductors" on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman led over 300 slaves to freedom in the decade before the war. The Maryland native began ...
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People and Ideas: Civil War and Reconstruction
Slain on Good Friday, he died the day before ... Maryland to lead members of her family to freedom. Repeatedly returning to the South, she led approximately 70 people to safety. During the Civil ...
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The men who drew the Mason-Dixon Line
Hailed as a groundbreaking technical achievement, it came to symbolise the border between the Civil War North and South, separating free Pennsylvania from slave-owning Maryland. But who were the ...
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CIVIL WAR
The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South ...