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1862: Dangers of roadside rebel coffee in Baltimore …

Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby (continued):

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Travel through Maryland was something of a rite of passage for many NH men during the war.  As a slave state, a “border state”, and in many ways the gateway to the South, Maryland presented Union troops with many perils… See especially:

• Maryland in the Civil War
• Baltimore Riots (Spring 1861)
  
  = First Union troops killed in action… by a mob, while trying to pass through Baltimore!
• The Maryland Line
  
  = Maryland soldiers fight for the C.S.A.