American Civil War "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the Government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity." ...
Points of interest include the grave of Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and the house of Barbara Frietchie, legendary Civil War heroine. Hood College and a campus of the Maryland School for the Deaf are in Frederick. Monocacy National Battlefield is nearby....
Explore this 19th-century cemetery to find historic gravesites, notable monuments and memorials dedicated to victims of the American Civil War.Mount Olivet Cemetery Schifferstadt One of Frederick’s oldest and grandest estates, this authentic 1750s German-Georgian colonial abode now houses an architectur...
But by providing the details of his experience in slavery, ‘giving names of persons, places, and dates’, he put himself in grave danger. This statement soon became known in Maryland, and I had reason to believe that an effort would be made to recapture me… And while there was little ...
In the period from the end of the first half of the present century to the close of the Civil War slavery rose to primary, but far from exclusive, importance. But this does not justify Dr. von Holst (to take an example) in treating our constitutional history in its formative period ...