My family has been in Maryland since the early 1600’s. The civil war divided my family where most of the men were southern sympathizers and fled to the army of N. Virginia, some doing her in the rare MD battalions, others in my family mostly the women and their youngest children fled north to Jersey or New York because they were northern sympathizers. And the weirdest thing of all, not a single person in my family owned land or slaves, they were just drug into the “states rights” argument and those who saw themselves as southern fought for the south, those who saw themselves as northern, went north. I cannot forgive my grandfather for hocking my greatx3 grandfathers union uniform, rifle, gear and all that. I would have cherished that.