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This will be in two parts. This thread will be about the background history, and the next will be about the lyrics themselves.
While I hope we can all disagree with the message of “Maryland should join the Confederate States of America”, it’s still a kinda interesting song. Especially since it’s one of the only state anthems that had sustenance past “we've got nice cornfields. I love Nebraska!” (Legitimately thats as deep as most of them get).
In this thread I’ll talk about the event that incited this poem, the author, and the general political climate at the time, mostly in Maryland.
The author of the poem was James Ryder Randall. He was native to Maryland. At the time of the riot, he was teaching at a college in Louisiana. However, a friend of his, Francis X Ward, was killed by Union soldiers in Baltimore, leading him to write the poem.
The Baltimore Riot occurred on April 19, 1861. This was a week after the battle of Fort Sumter, which was considered to be the start of the Civil War. At this point in time, most confederate states had seceded. Virginia, North Carolina, and Arkansas had voted to remain in the Union, but after Lincoln called for US troops to be raised to take back Fort Sumter they voted to secede. Maryland and Delaware were in flux. Baltimore itself was a pro southern city.
The riots were as a result of federal troops being moved through Baltimore in large numbers. Baltimore was a major rail hub. This escalated tensions, until federal troops moving through Baltimore were attacked with bricks, rocks, pistols, etc. A riot broke out, killing federal troops and civilians. 5 soldiers and 12 civilians died in the riot.
This, along with other events at the time, made some people in Maryland very pro confederate, while others were pro union. Maryland was ultimately a Union state, but there’s a lot that people could and did point at as things they viewed as barbaric or tyranny. That’s the kind of environment that led to the poem being written, which I’ll talk about more in the next thread.
While I hope we can all disagree with the message of “Maryland should join the Confederate States of America”, it’s still a kinda interesting song. Especially since it’s one of the only state anthems that had sustenance past “we've got nice cornfields. I love Nebraska!” (Legitimately thats as deep as most of them get).
In this thread I’ll talk about the event that incited this poem, the author, and the general political climate at the time, mostly in Maryland.
The author of the poem was James Ryder Randall. He was native to Maryland. At the time of the riot, he was teaching at a college in Louisiana. However, a friend of his, Francis X Ward, was killed by Union soldiers in Baltimore, leading him to write the poem.
The Baltimore Riot occurred on April 19, 1861. This was a week after the battle of Fort Sumter, which was considered to be the start of the Civil War. At this point in time, most confederate states had seceded. Virginia, North Carolina, and Arkansas had voted to remain in the Union, but after Lincoln called for US troops to be raised to take back Fort Sumter they voted to secede. Maryland and Delaware were in flux. Baltimore itself was a pro southern city.
The riots were as a result of federal troops being moved through Baltimore in large numbers. Baltimore was a major rail hub. This escalated tensions, until federal troops moving through Baltimore were attacked with bricks, rocks, pistols, etc. A riot broke out, killing federal troops and civilians. 5 soldiers and 12 civilians died in the riot.
This, along with other events at the time, made some people in Maryland very pro confederate, while others were pro union. Maryland was ultimately a Union state, but there’s a lot that people could and did point at as things they viewed as barbaric or tyranny. That’s the kind of environment that led to the poem being written, which I’ll talk about more in the next thread.
