is behind a bill in the Maryland state legislature that will change the names of highways referencing soldiers of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Grossman says the federal government has ...

Hughes was one of the nearly 4 million men, women and children enslaved during the American Civil War. At the time of the recording, in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 11, 1949, he was 101 years old.

The ninth of 10 children, Booth grew up outside Bel Air, Maryland. After his ... Booth was a Confederate sympathizer during the war. Fiercely opposed to abolition, he attended the hanging of ...

Tubman was born a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County around ... she helped a fugitive slave who had been captured. During the Civil War Harriet Tubman worked for the Union as a cook, a nurse ...