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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (115076)	8/13/2008 10:21:08 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 132070

Over the summer of 1861 the hand of the federal government fell firmly on the shoulders of Marylanders,? wrote historian Robert Brugger.65 Federal officials and officers were taking no chances with a repeat of April?s chaos. After the reassignment of General Butler, General Nathaniel Banks and General John A. Dix shared responsibility for the state. Historian David Detzer wrote: ?Between late April and early September, Maryland came beneath increasing military pressure. Hundreds of individual were imprisoned on suspicion of having secessionist sympathies....During the Civil War federal authorities would eventually jail 2,094 Marylanders ? including seventeen owners of newspapers, twenty-nine elected members of the state legislature, countless bankers, merchants, and manufacturers ? for such political reasons.?66