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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Sheads, Scott Sumpter. Guardian of the Star-Spangled Banner: Lt. Colonel George Armistead and the Fort McHenry Flag. Linthicum, MD: Toomey Press, 1999.

Shugg, Wallace. "With a Schoolmaster Aboard the U.S. Frigate 'Constellation', 1829-1831." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Spring 1993): 52-59.

Spencer, Warren F. Raphael Semmes: The Philosophical Mariner. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.

Svirbely, William J., and Dorothy M. Svirbely. Captain James Campbell, a Chronicle. Walkersville, MD: Published by the authors, 1989.

Sword, Gerald J. "Stanley J. Morrow, A Civil War Photographer at Point Lookout, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 31 (December 1983): 105-111.

Symonds, Craig L. Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999.

"Tom Fossit: The Man Who Claimed That He Shot Braddock." Glades Star 7 (June 1995): 564-66.

Walston, Mark. "The Ballad of Ishmael Day." Maryland 26 (February 1994): 36-39, 41.

White, Roger. "The Uniform Man." Anne Arundel County History Notes 25 (October 1993): 7-8.

"Who Was General Braddock?" Seedlings 1 (October 1990): 2.

Yellott, John Bosley, Jr. "Jeremiah Yellott-Revolutionary-War Privateersman and Baltimore Philanthropist." Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Summer 1991): 176-89.

Berlin, Ira, et al., eds. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series II. The Black Military Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Notes: Based upon the Freedman's Papers collection at the National Archives, this volume focuses on the black military experience. Unlike most of the previous volumes, where there was an entire chapter devoted to Maryland, references to the state are scattered throughout the book. By the spring of 1865 some 179,000 black men enlisted in the Union army, of which 8,718 were from Maryland. These figures do not include service in the naval forces. Black enlistment helped to undermine slavery but it also contributed to a shortage of labor in rural areas. The families of enlistees were often ill-treated. Once in the Army, blacks were discouraged by unequal pay and by doing more manual labor than fighting. By the end of the war, however, black units fought with distinction. In Maryland, like other border states, black veterans were the objects of widespread terror as the former planter class attempted to reassert its hegemony.

Billingsley, Andrew. "Family Reunion-The Legacy of Robert Smalls: Civil War Hero." Maryland Humanities (Winter 1993): 14-17.

Blackburn, George M., ed. "The Negro as Viewed by a Michigan Civil War Soldier: Letters of John C. Buchanan." Michigan History 47 (1963): 75-84.

Blassingame, John Wesley. The Organization and Use of Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1863-1865. M.A. thesis, Howard University, 1961.

Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

Callum, Agnes Kane. 9th Regiment Colored Troops: Volunteers of Maryland, Civil War, 1863-1866. Baltimore: Mullac Publishers, 1999.

Callum, Agnes K. Colored Volunteers of Maryland, Civil War, 7th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, 1863-1866. Baltimore: Mullac Publishers, 1990.

Davidson, Roger A., Jr. "Brown Water, Black Men: Afro-Americans in the Potomac Flotilla, 1861-1865." Maryland Humanities (Winter 1998): 4.

Fausz, Jeanette Fox. "The Buffalo Soldiers: Black Marylanders in the American West." Maryland Pendulum 4 (Summer 1985): 5-7.

Garrant, Richard Louis. Racial Minority Understanding and Awareness Educational Programs in the Ft. G. G. Meade, Maryland Community. Ed.D. diss., George Washington University, 1986.

George, Christopher T. "Mirage of Freedom: African Americans in the War of 1812." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Winter 1996): 426-50.
Notes: Black men fought for both the American and British forces during the War of 1812. For example, free blacks who constructed earthworks and black sailors in the U.S. Navy helped to deflect the British attack on Baltimore in 1814. Free blacks and slaves who decided to help the British hoped to secure freedom in return for their services.

Gwillim, Joy. "Slavery in Cecil County." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 68 (September 1994): 5-6.

Moulton, Paul C. "African-American Inclusion in the Fifth Naval District, 1942-44." Southern Historian 18 (1997): 29-44.

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