. Voting in the field; a forgotten chapter of the civil war . ^v. MARYLAND 225 Maryland put into the United States service in therebelhon three regiments, two battahons and oneindependent company of cavalry; six batteries oflight artillery; and nineteen regiments and one in-dependent company of infantry; comprising in all48,855 men, including 2,217 sailors.^ Of these troops8,718 were colored. The Legislature which had been called in sessionto deliberate and consider of the condition of theState at Frederick City, first resolved that theyhad no authority to pass an ordinance of secession,and th
. Voting in the field; a forgotten chapter of the civil war . ^v. MARYLAND 225 Maryland put into the United States service in therebelhon three regiments, two battahons and oneindependent company of cavalry; six batteries oflight artillery; and nineteen regiments and one in-dependent company of infantry; comprising in all48,855 men, including 2,217 sailors.^ Of these troops8,718 were colored. The Legislature which had been called in sessionto deliberate and consider of the condition of theState at Frederick City, first resolved that theyhad no authority to pass an ordinance of secession,and then proceeded to pass through the Senate a billcreating a Board of Public Safety, which it wasclaimed was simply a substitute for an ordinance ofsecession. It then adopted resolutions in regard tothe calling of a sovereign convention by a vote of43 to 12 in the House, and 11 to 3 in the Houses appointed a Committee to visit thePresident of the United States and the President ofthe Southern Confederacy. The Committee to visitthe President of the Unite
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