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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (13248)10/6/1998 8:50:00 PM
From: jhild  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
Well, I think the distinction that you would make about Maryland is not entirely valid. Indeed as a border state it was split in it's loyalties, and indeed the Union abetted the loyal sympathizers in controlling the state, even suspending habeas corpus, for the strategic reasons that you mention. But as it turned out there was a majority of Marylanders that were with the Union. The plight of joining one side or the other was visited on the minority elements in most border states, so I think to say that the Marylanders couldn't join their southern kin applied no less than to Virginians believing in the Union, and to an even a larger degree Unionists in Tennessee. (Kentucky was a bit of a toss up as I recall.) Indeed Abe was a fairly end justifies the means kind of guy, though it was a civil war after all.

I have relatives that moved for instance at the beginning of the war from Shenandoah to Ohio for this very reason.
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