Lucas cabin

[Laurie Verge]

I think the importance of Maryland to the Union is often overlooked by scholars. We are written off as a "border state," and that's pretty much it. The only other time it gets mentioned is Monocacy and Antietam.

On the issue of contraband, the Confiscation Acts by the Union allowed them to take Maryland plantations, and some of them became camps and government farms for the benefit of the Union. The old Sothoron plantation, The Plains, that we have talked about previously was an example of this.