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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Callum, Agnes Kane. "Corporal Philip Webster: A Civil War Soldier." Harford Historical Bulletin 35 (Winter 1988): 3-6.

"Cecil Minister Had to Pick Two for Execution in Civil War." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 54 (May 1987): 1-3.

Chaney, William F. Duty Most Sublime: The Life of Robert E. Lee as Told Through the Carter Letters. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1996.

Chrismer, James E. "A Saga of the Civil War: William and Margaret Bissell." Harford Historical Bulletin 60 (Spring 1994): 51-94.

Clark, James Samuel. "'They Wore the Grey': Carlton B. Kelton." Calvert Historian 4 (Spring 1989): 1-4.

Clark, James Samuel. "They Wore the Grey: Richard Covington Mackall." Calvert Historian 4 (Fall 1989): 3-6.

Clark, Margaret. "Before Meade Village: The Charles Clark Farm." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 20.

Coryell, Janet L. Neither Heroine Nor Fool: Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1986.

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "Larkin Rodolphus Shipley: Northern Anne Arundel County Farmer-Part I." Anne Arundel County History Notes 29 (July 1998): 3-4, 14-15; "Part II-Crisis and Recovery." Anne Arundel County History Notes 30 (October 1998): 5-6, 11-12.

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "The Recollections of James W. Shipley: Growing Up on the I. L. Shipley Brothers Farm-Part I." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 3, 13-16; Part II, 26 (July 1995): 5, 10-13.

Forbes, Charles P. "A 'Minute' Regarding Major Harry Gilmor." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Winter 1994): 469.

Holmes, Torlief S. April Tragedy: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Poolesville, MD: Old Soldier Books, 1986.

Jacobs, Charles, and Marian Waters. "Colonel Elijah Veirs White." Montgomery County Story 22 (February 1979): 1-11.

LeoGrande, William M. "'No Gain': Portrait of a Family Farm." Montgomery County Story 42 (May 1999): 77-88.

Marks, Bayly Ellen, and Mark Norton Schatz, eds. Between North and South, A Maryland Journalist Views the Civil War: The Narrative of William Wilkins Glenn, 1861-1869. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976.

Pons, Josh. Country Life Diary: Three Years in the Life of a Horse Farm. Second edition, Lexington, KY: The Blood-Horse, Inc., 1999.

Priest, John Michael. Captain James Wren's Civil War Diary, From New Bern to Fredericksburg: B Company, 48th Pennsylvania Volunteers, February 20, 1862-December 17, 1862. New York: Berkley Books, 1991.

Shulman, Terry. "What Really Happened to the Assassin?" Civil War Times Illustrated 31 (July/August 1992): 50-51.

Simpson, William E. "Alexius Lancaster, 1794-1856: Farm Life in Southern Maryland Circa 1818-1856, Preamble." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Spring 1995): 120.

Sines, Taylor. "Walt Whitehair-Lifelong Cattle Dealer." Glades Star 9 (June 1999): 70-72.

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.

Tidwell, William A. "Booth Crosses the Potomac: An Exercise in Historical Research." Civil War History 36 (December 1990): 325-33.

Turner, Charles W., ed. "A Virginia Small Farmer's Life after the Civil War." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 63 (1955): 286-305.

Berlin, Ira, et al., eds. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series I, Volume II. The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Notes: Based upon the Freedman's Papers collection at the National Archives, this volume focuses on the genesis of free labor. Chapter 4, which presents an essay followed by original documents, is devoted to the Maryland experience. Although slavery and free labor co-existed throughout the 19th century, slavery had been concentrated in Southern Maryland and on the Eastern Shore, and it was here that the greatest tension existed during the Civil War era. Runaway slaves quickly appeared at unionist camps, such as Point Lookout, or escaped to the national capital, in search of freedom and employment. By 1864 several government farms were created along the Patuxent River from abandoned property which was home to over 600 former slaves. Former slaves discovered that emancipation did not mean freedom. The state legislature, still under the influence of former slave owners, passed restrictive laws circumscribing their freedom, including an apprenticeship law which allowed white landowners to forcefully "apprentice" black children. The Union commander, General Lew Wallace, attempted to counteract this program by issuing General Order 112, but the effort was not supported by the national government.

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