Union enlistments from Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri increased by over 40, 000 troops.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.

Because the threatened secession of Maryland would leave the Federal capital of Washington, D. C., an indefensible enclave within the Confederacy, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and imposed martial law in Baltimore and portions of the state, ordering the imprisonment of pro-secession Maryland political leaders at Ft. McHenry and the stationing of Federal troops in Baltimore.

** Battle of Antietam: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the bloodiest day in U. S. history ( with over 22, 000 casualties ).

On 4 July 1864, the Union commanding Gen. Franz Sigel withdrew his troops to Maryland Heights.

As early as 1667, six years after the laying out of Talbot County, may be found in the Proceedings of the Provincial Council of Maryland, a commission issued by Charles Calvert, Esq., Captain General of all the forces within the Province of Maryland, to George Richard-son as captain of 0 troops of horse that shall march out of " Choptanck and St.

Mayor Brown of Baltimore and Governor Hicks of Maryland asked that no more troops cross Maryland, but Lincoln refused.

Within that period United States soldiers, while committing no offense, had been perfidiously attacked and inhumanly murdered in your streets ; no punishment had been awarded, and I believe, no arrests had been made for these atrocious crimes ; supplies of provisions intended for this garrison had been stopped ; the intention to capture this fort had been boldly proclaimed ; your most public thoroughfares were daily patrolled by large numbers of troops, armed and clothed, at least in part, with articles stolen from the United States ; and the Federal flag, while waving over the Federal offices, was cut down by some person wearing the uniform of a Maryland officer.

In late July 1777, after a distressing 34-day journey from Sandy Hook on the coast of New Jersey, a Royal Navy fleet of more than 260 ships carrying some 17, 000 British troops under the command of British General Sir William Howe landed at the head of the Elk River, on the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay near present-day Elkton, Maryland ( then known as Head of Elk ), approximately 40 – 50 miles ( 60 – 80 km ) southwest of Philadelphia.

It also raised the first ten companies of Continental troops on a one-year enlistment, riflemen from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia to be used as light infantry, who later became the 1st Continental Regiment in 1776.

Hopkins ' support of Abraham Lincoln also often put him at odds with some of Maryland's most prominent people, particularly Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney, who continually opposed Lincoln's presidential decisions, such as his policies of limiting habeas corpus and stationing troops in Maryland.

The Americans panicked, although a stand by 400 Maryland troops prevented most of the army from being captured.

He was assigned the command of a division of Maryland and Delaware troops, and was ordered south as reinforcements.

The military history of Andrews AFB began in the 1860s during the Civil War when Union troops occupied a small country church near Camp Springs, Maryland, as sleeping quarters.

A depiction of Civil War troops reading their mail at the Eagle Tavern which doubled as the post office in Silver Spring, Maryland can be seen at the Silver Spring Library.

Federal troops occupied Baltimore, and some people who wrote music that favored the Confederacy were jailed ; these pieces included " The Confederacy March ", " Stonewall Jackson's Way " and " Maryland, My Maryland ", the last later becoming Maryland's state song.

It should be noted that the official VIII Corps of the Union Army was led by Lew Wallace during this time and its troops were on duty in Maryland and Northern Virginia.

Union troops had to go through Maryland to reach the national capital at Washington, D. C. Had Maryland also joined the Confederacy, Washington, D. C. would have been totally surrounded.

Maryland contributed troops to both the Union ( 60, 000 ), and the Confederate ( 25, 000 ) armies.

We therefore inhabitants of the Province of Maryland, firmly persuaded that it is necessary and justifiable to repel force by force, do approve of the opposition by Arms to the British troops, employed to enforce obedience to the late acts and statutes of the British parliament, for raising a revenue in America, and altering and changing the charter and constitution of the Massachusetts Bay, and for destroying the essential securities for the lives, liberties and properties of the subjects in the united colonies.

Both Takoma, D. C., and Takoma Park, Maryland, were noted regionally and nationally for progressive politics dating from the 1960s, when area residents ( led by future Takoma Park, MD mayor Sam Abbott ) rallied to prevent a 10-lane freeway from bisecting the community, and lobbied to build the Metrorail system, on the site of the former B & O railroad station around which the community had been built.

The " Old Defenders " noted that troops from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia had rallied to Baltimore and Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore.

In 1828, an article published in a Hagerstown, Maryland, newspaper briefly describes a young girl who's drawn away from her daily chores to play a familiar game with her friends.

* July 16 – Great railroad strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government before U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.

After serving briefly as the Chief-of-Staff for the Air Force Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Allen was appointed in March 1973 as a deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community in Washington, D. C.

Establishment of the eponymous Wright's Ferry, the first commercial Susquehanna crossing in the region, inflamed territorial conflict with neighboring Maryland but brought growth and prosperity to the small town, which was briefly considered as a candidate for the new United States ' capital.

Baltimore album quilts originated in the region around Baltimore, Maryland in the 1840s, where a unique and highly developed applique style of quilting briefly flourished.

Crisfield briefly became the second most populous city in the entire state of Maryland, known as the " Seafood Capital of the World "; indeed, its success was so great that the train soot and oyster shells prompted the extension of the city's land into the marshes, so that the downtown area is literally built atop oyster shells, a common claim by those from the city.

Brown briefly attended Delaware State University as a math major, before he switched to Maryland State College which was a more prosperous musical environment.

Although Maryland was an early pioneer of religious toleration in the English colonies, religious strife among Anglicans, Puritans, Catholics, and Quakers was common in the early years, and Puritan rebels briefly seized control of the province.

Also, in 1828, an article published in a Hagerstown, Maryland, newspaper briefly describes a young girl who is drawn away from her daily chores to play a familiar game with her friends.

Upshur was admitted to the bar in 1810 ; he briefly set up practice in Baltimore, Maryland, but returned to Virginia after the death of his father, where he set up a thriving law practice and became active in state politics.

Governor Stone briefly refused but gave in to Claiborne and the Commission, and submitted Maryland to Parliamentary rule.

In 1721 Charles came of age and assumed personal control of Maryland, travelling there briefly in 1732.

US 340 begins at an intersection with US 11 and continues north, entering West Virginia between Charles Town and Harpers Ferry, and then briefly re-enters Virginia before crossing the Potomac River into Maryland.

Joined briefly by a crew of 20 former East German sailors, a small civilian U. S. crew conducted extensive testing with the vessel at the Navy's Solomons, Maryland, facility in the Patuxent River.

This circumferential roadway is located not only in the states of Virginia and Maryland, but also crosses briefly through the District of Columbia, near the western end of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River.

The Capital Beltway encircles Washington, D. C., in adjacent Maryland and Virginia, entering the District of Columbia only briefly, on an over-water portion of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River several miles south of downtown Washington.

Mandel lived briefly in Arnold, Maryland, and currently lives and practices law in Annapolis.

Lee continued to serve as Acting Governor until Mandel rescinded his letter on January 15, 1979, though Mandel briefly reinstated Lee as acting governor the next day so he would be able to preside over the appointment of a judge to the Maryland Court of Appeals.

He commanded the Red River expedition in Minnesota of 1856 – 57, and served under Albert Sidney Johnston in Utah ( 1857 – 60 ), commanding the Department of Utah himself from 1860 to 1861, and the Department of Washington ( at Fort Washington, Maryland ) very briefly at the start of the Civil War.

Pratt's term as governor expired in 1848, and he briefly returned to practicing law in Annapolis, Maryland.

Mathias briefly served as assistant Attorney General of Maryland from 1953 to 1954.

He continued his education in the office of the secretary of the Maryland Colonization Society, went briefly to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and graduated in 1860 from Ashmun Institute ( later Lincoln University ) in Oxford, Pennsylvania.

He briefly attended the Maryland Military Academy and Yale University, and after graduating from Harvard University in 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry for the Civil War, emerging with the rank of captain.

His journalism career began with the Washington Star in 1978 following his graduation from the University of Maryland ; he then worked briefly for the Baltimore News-American in 1981.