150 Years Ago This Week in the Civil War

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Remember the Soldiers!

We are now greatly in want of every article of hospital supply, and we need funds, in order to pay the salaries of our chaplains and others who are engaged in visiting the sick and instructing them in the duties....

The Lutheran Observer (Baltimore), May 15, 1863, p. 2.

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Posted on 5/16/2013 in Baltimore, Religion

Troop Movements, Arrests, and Inhospitality

Md. Vols. has again moved. They have gone to Berryville, Va., a small village about halfway between Harper's Ferry....

The Cecil Whig (Elkton), April 4, 1863, p. 2.

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Posted on 4/5/2013 in Militias, Arrests of Maryland Citizens, Union Troops in Maryland, Cecil County, Religion

Methodist Schism Afoot?

At a meeting of the official members of the Zion M.E. Church, of Cambridge, the following declaration was unanimously adopted, expressing their present position and purpose:

Cambridge Herald, March 4, 1863, p. 2.

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Posted on 3/7/2013 in Religion, Dorchester County

The End is Not Yet!

There are a great many good people who think they see in the abounding corruption of society and our national calamities unmistakable signs of the approaching end....

The Lutheran Observer (Baltimore), February 13, 1863, p. 2.

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Posted on 2/16/2013 in Baltimore, Religion

Naval Academy Conscripted for Hospital; First Lady Bradford Cooks for Wounded Soldiers

Rev. W.E Boardman, who volunteered to visit the hopitals about Annapolis and Baltimore, to minister to the sick and wounded soldiers from Pennsylvania, has written the following letter....

Baltimore Weekly Sun, July 19, 1862, p. 2.

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Posted on 7/13/2012 in Baltimore, Women, Religion, Annapolis