The August 27th Hometown Annapolis website had a review on Richard P. Cox's new book "Civil War Maryland: Stories from the Old State Line" which consistes of 16 essays.
One deals with Maryland being both a Confederate and Union state with troops fighting on both sides.
Another essay deals with Franklin Buchanan, a native of Maryland and first superintendent of the US Naval Academy. He was commanding the CSS Virginia when it attacked and shelled the USS Congress, even though he knew his brother McKean Buchanan was the ship's paymaster.
Another one was on inventor Richard Sears McCulloch, who invented a lethal gas and Greek Fire for the Confederacy. Liquid fire could ignaite without a spark or detonation and it was proposed to use it on the floor of the US House of representatives.
Also, there was a Camp Parole near US-50 in Annapolis, where Confederate soldiers were pardoned in the early part of the war. Of interest, one general equalled 46 privates and a captain was 6 privates.
Thgen, there was the prison camp at Point Lookout, eswtablished 1863, where many Confederates died.
Sounds Like an Interesting Book. -Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
