| Loyalty on the Line: Civil War Maryland in American Memory Subjects: Maryland -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865; Public opinion -- Maryland -- History; Collective memory -- Maryland; Memory -- Social aspects -- Maryland; During the American Civil War, Maryland did not join the Confederacy but nonetheless possessed divided loyalties and sentiments. These divisions came to a head in the years that followed the war. In Loyalty on the Line , David K. Graham argues that Maryland did not adopt a unified postbellum identity and that the state remained divided, with some identifying with the state's Unionist efforts and others maintaining a connection to the Confederacy and its defeated cause. Depictions of Civil War Maryland, both inside and outside the state, hinged on interpretations of the state's loyalty. DAVID K. GRAHAM is an assistant professor of history at Snow College. His work has been published in Maryland Historical Magazine and the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. |