Did you know...

" …that Abraham Lincoln received only 2% of Maryland’s votes during the 1860 election?"

"…that George Washington gave his resignation speech to the Continental Congress in the Old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House?"

"…that Clara Barton assisted wounded Union soldiers after the Baltimore Riots in 1861?"

"…that John Marshall, the longest-serving Chief Justice of the United States (1801-35), was also the author of one of the first biographies of George Washington? "

"…that John Wilkes Booth’s father, Junius Brutus Booth, and his brother, Edwin Booth, are both members of the American Theatre Hall of Fame?"

"…that prior to his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown rented a small Maryland farmhouse under the pseudonym Isaac Smith?"

"…that on October 4th, 1861, the U.S. Navy authorized construction of its first ironclad warship (later named the Monitor)? "

"…that in November of 1861, Julia Ward Howe wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”? "

"…that on November 19th, 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis asked his Congress for a railway linking the eastern and western interior of the Confederacy?"

"…that Charles Willson Peale, renowned portraitist of the eighteenth century, began his career as a saddle maker?"