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In the presidential election of 1860, the Democratic Party split over which candidate to nominate. Southern Democrats supported John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. (Library of Congress)

A broadside advertising a meeting of the Constitutional Union Party in Frederick in September 1860 (Perkins Library, Duke University)

Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas of Illinois. (Library of Congress)

John Bell from Tennessee was the candidate of the moderate Constitutional Union Party. (Library of Congress)

Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for President (Library of Congress)

Campaign banner for the Republican ticket featuring Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, emblazoned with the slogan Free Speech, Free Homes, Free Territory (1860, W.H. Rease; Library of Congress)

The inauguration of Abraham Lincoln on March 4, 1861 (Library of Congress)

Newspaper article describing the passage of the secession ordinance in South Carolina on December 20, 1860; declares The Union is Dissolved!

Jefferson Davis became President of the Confederate States of American on February 9, 1861 (National Portrait Gallery)

The arrest of George Kane, Baltimores Marshall of Police, on June 27, 1861, on a charge of treason (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 6, 1861; http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/33055

How Virginia Was Voted Out of the Union, Harpers Weekly, June 15, 1861 (National Park Service)

Broadside calling for a Mass Convention in Frederick County on March 26, 1861 to form an organization supporting the Union (Perkins Library, Duke University)

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, on April 12, 1861 (Currier and Ives, 1861; Library of Congress)

The Union and Confederate states in 1861 (http://www.education.com/study-help/article/us-history-civil-war-started-when-year/)

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Maryland and the Border
in the Civil War

The Coming Crisis

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Maryland and the Border in the Civil War

The Coming Crisis

Special Collections

Maryland and the Border
in the Civil War