Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Posted on 06/24/2005 10:40:35 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
Good morning all.
I agree with PAR35. Maryland would have been forced to stay in the Union. It may have taken some more "occupation" troops to do it, but the end result would have been the same. IMHO, Maryland for the most part, wanted to stay "neutral" like Kentucky, the sentiment among the population was too evenly split between North and South. They may have declared for secession but it would not have stood and the South was in no position to do much to help that early in the war.point
LOL! a familiar scene in my yard. :-)
Hey! That looks like Trooper #4 in "Cohen and Tate".
=:-0
LOL. We get squirrel questions everyday!
Do you think any of the folks on your ping list might be interested in this discussion?
"What if Maryland had joined the Confederacy in 1861? How would this have changed the war and why?"
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
This will be an interesting project to watch come together. Don't you ever rest?
I agree with the consensus so far, that Maryland could never be allowed to secede.
Now suppose Congress in those days was run by Dean-dong, Reid and Pelosi types who would not allow the President to do those nasty "illegal" things to keep Maryland in the Union? Well, if the Union had done nothing and had Maryland or Eastern Maryland seceded, I suppose we would have had to evacuate Washington and set up a temporary capital somewhere, maybe Philadelphia. That would have been a disaster, severely shaking Northern morale and possibly would have shifted the country to a Copperhead majority. Well, that's why Lincoln determined Maryland would never secede.
"We get squirrel questions everyday!"
Just print this out. It provides the answer to most squirrel questions.
http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir14.html
More answers here:
http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir.html
By the way - it finally got hot enough and dry enough that the ducks on the roof went away.
Sam, you're scaring me . . . how did you find out my "top secret" past? ;^)
Did I mention I was a scrounger?
Bet if you used "Vic Ferrari" as a name , we'd see it more often. ;-)
Look at the bright side, "Engineer Mark" was a step up from "Trooper #4" ;-)
LOL! Good job.
Too much work for too little meat. ;-)
Did you ever get a picture? I just can't imagine ducks on a rooftop.
??? I'm guessing the guy in the mirror is you, which after reading this post has me imagining you throwing yourself around the field and then making a gift of flowers to the missus.
(Well.. something I'd do..)
Hiya Dark.
HI!
I've beeen lurkin' around..
;-)
We really really need to rise up about this border issue.
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