The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
A History of Road Building in Maryland. Baltimore: State Roads Commission of Maryland, 1958.
Notes: A good summary with many interesting references.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Jacobs, Charles T. "Civil War Fords and Ferries in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 40 (February 1997): 417-28.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War
Jacobs, David, and Anthony E. Neville. Bridges, Canals, and Tunnels; the Engineering Conquest of North America. New York: American Heritage, 1968.
Notes: This readable general discussion of the subject with fine illustrations includes material on Maryland. Robert M. Vogel, former curator of mechanical and civil engineering at the Smithsonian Institution was the consultant.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
LeViness, Charles T. History of Road Building in Maryland. Baltimore: Maryland State Roads Commission, 1958.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
McGrain, John. "Roads to Philadelphia." Nuts and Bolts 14 (Spring 1996): [7-9].
McGrain, John. Roads to Philadelphia: Historic Background, Philadelphia Roads Study. Towson, MD: Baltimore County Office of Planning and Zoning, 1990.
Seldon, W. Lynn. Country Roads of Maryland and Delaware. Castine, ME: Country Roads Press, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Chesapeake Region
Summers, Festus P. The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War. New York: Putnam's, 1939.
Notes: The B&O was the Union's most important railroad during the conflict. Summers's book "presents a scholarly, objective, and conscientious approach to the subject in hand with literary execution of unusual excellence," said Maryland historian Matthew Page Andrews in his 1940 <em>Maryland Historical Magazine</em> review.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Tanner, H. S. A Description of the Canals and Rail Roads of the United States, Comprehending Notices of All The Works of Internal Improvement Throughout the Several States. New York: T. R. Tanner and J.D. Disturnell, 1840.
Notes: Maryland is included in this state-by-state compilation of early American internal improvements.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Addison-Darneille, and Henrietta Stockton. "For Better or For Worse." Civil War Times Illustrated 31 (May/June 1992): 32-35, 73.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Cale, Clyde C., Jr. "Maria Louise Browning: Civil War Heroine." Glades Star 9 (March 1999): 11-13, 39.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Women, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County, Civil War
Coryell, Janet L. "Anna Ella Carroll and the Historians." Civil War History 35 (June 1989): 120-37.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Civil War, Eastern Shore
Kelbaugh, Jack. "Northern Hospital Nurses: Mary Young and Rose Billings Make the Ultimate Sacrifice in Civil War Annapolis." Anne Arundel County History Notes 25 (January 1994): 5-6, 19.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Military, Women, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Civil War
Berlin, Ira, Francine C. Cary, Steven F. Miller, and Leslie S. Rowland. "Family and Freedom: Black Families in the American Civil War." History Today [Great Britain] 37 (1987): 8-15.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Bohannon, Keith, ed. "Wounded & Captured at Gettysburg: Reminiscence by Sgt. William Jones, 50th Georgia Infantry." Military Images 9 (1988): 14-15.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Boyd, Charles A. "George Alfred Townsend and the War Correspondents Memorial." Civil War Times Illustrated 16 (1977): 10-13.
Categories: Nineteenth Century, Frederick County, Washington County, Other, Civil War
Brown, Kent Masterson. "Greenhorns and Honey Bees: The One Hundred and Thirty-Second Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry at Antietam." Lincoln Herald 81 (1979): 202-206.
Categories: Military, Nineteenth Century, Washington County, Other, Civil War
Browning, Robert M., Jr. From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region, Civil War
Burton, Arthur G., and Richard W. Stephenson. "John Ballendine's Eighteenth-century Map of Virginia." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 21 (1964): 172-178.
Categories: Agriculture, Geography and Cartography, Eighteenth Century, Other
"Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (April 2000): 25-28.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Coryell, Janet L. "'The Lincoln Colony': Aaron Columbus Burr's Proposed Colonization of British Honduras." Civil War History 43 (1997): 5-16.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Craighead, Sandra G., comp. "Index of Maryland and West Virginia Civil War Colored Troopers and Their 'Loyal Slaveowners.'" Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 15 (1996): 40-50.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Davidson, Roger A., Jr. "'They Have Never Been Known to Falter': The First United States Colored Infantry in Virginia and North Carolina." Civil War Regiments 6 (1998): 1-26.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Hein, David. A Student's View of the College of St. James on the Eve of the Civil War: The Letters of W. Wilkins Davis (1842-1866). Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1988.
Categories: Education, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Washington County, Other, Civil War
Ecenbarger, William. Walkin' the Line: A Journey from Past to Present. New York: M. Evans, 2000.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Other