Maryland's Blue & Gray: A Border State's Union and Confederate Junior Officer Corps

by Kevin Conley Ruffner

The Civil War in Maryland was in many ways a microcosm of the events that afflicted the entire nation. As a border state, Maryland held conflicting loyalties between the Union and the new Confederate States of America. Its role in the struggle reflected those divided allegiances as its men, following the dictates of either conscience or kinship, were compelled to choose sides.

While the number of Marylanders who served in the Union and Confederate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000VYM5R6
• ISBN13: 9780807121351
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"