St. Peter's or Horsehead? Is the Stage Route the Answer?

[Wild Bill]

Rick is correct--the answer is "yes." The seizure of "rebel" farms and putting "freed" blacks to work on them was a common procedure by the Federals throughout the South as it was captured by the Union army. See the Captured and Abandoned Property Act pf 1863. The man in charge in the Mississippi Valley was Col. John Eaton of Grant's staff, I do not know who did it in Maryland.