Reading Shomette's Book Anaconda's Tail.

Hessian

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Great Mills Post Office,...Fall 1861
Federal forces swarm Great Mills and loot the Post Office because it was deemed a transit spot for military intelligence & connections between secessionists (local & in Baltimore) AND contacts in Virginia. They got a treasure trove of names & locations of Southern sympathizers and continued to damp-down secessionist sentiments in So Md. The postmaster was arrested & jailed.

It is interesting what the Federal government has been doing with intel on its own citizens since 1861...

BTW...the entire book looks at So Md,...the Potomac, Point Look Out prison camp, Booth's flight, etc...it is a very lengthy Tome.
If your roots go back to the CW era,...you might enjoy perusing it and learning about some local events and family members...
There still may be some interesting things stashed in the creeks & swamps!
 
Kyle

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Hessian said:
Great Mills Post Office,...Fall 1861
Federal forces swarm Great Mills and loot the Post Office because it was deemed a transit spot for military intelligence & connections between secessionists (local & in Baltimore) AND contacts in Virginia. They got a treasure trove of names & locations of Southern sympathizers and continued to damp-down secessionist sentiments in So Md. The postmaster was arrested & jailed.

It is interesting what the Federal government has been doing with intel on its own citizens since 1861...

BTW...the entire book looks at So Md,...the Potomac, Point Look Out prison camp, Booth's flight, etc...it is a very lengthy Tome.
If your roots go back to the CW era,...you might enjoy perusing it and learning about some local events and family members...
There still may be some interesting things stashed in the creeks & swamps!
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Who would’ve ever thought the Baltimore police would be seizing and burning bridges.
 
Gilligan

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Hessian said:
Great Mills Post Office,...Fall 1861
Federal forces swarm Great Mills and loot the Post Office because it was deemed a transit spot for military intelligence & connections between secessionists (local & in Baltimore) AND contacts in Virginia. They got a treasure trove of names & locations of Southern sympathizers and continued to damp-down secessionist sentiments in So Md. The postmaster was arrested & jailed.

It is interesting what the Federal government has been doing with intel on its own citizens since 1861...

BTW...the entire book looks at So Md,...the Potomac, Point Look Out prison camp, Booth's flight, etc...it is a very lengthy Tome.
If your roots go back to the CW era,...you might enjoy perusing it and learning about some local events and family members...
There still may be some interesting things stashed in the creeks & swamps!
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Awesome. I have Pirates of the Chesapeak...definitely buying this one. I recently read a book called The Real Lincoln that went in to great depth and detail about the extraordinarily unconstitutional things Lincoln did to Marylanders at the start of his war.
 
Hessian

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Sometimes your livelihood, your friendships, your property, and family associations rest on if you pick up the pen and sign the loyalty oath in front of military officers. We've been down that road at least twice in America.

I believe a digital version will be in the not so distant future if wokeness becomes permanently entrenched in government policy. China's digital facial recognition and evaluation of status comes to mind.

THAT (and many other reasons) is why we ought to be reading history.
Well done Kyle, Gilligan....you are 'men of letters.' Enjoy the read!
 
Gilligan

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Hessian said:
Well done Kyle, Gilligan....you are 'men of letters.' Enjoy the read!
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I purchase and read roughly 20 books a year....nearly all of them "history" books of some kind. Just finished "Finding the Atosha" and currently in to a fascinating book written by a Portugese author, "The Real Columbus".

Although a large portion off my personal library, including all my signed copies of James Michener's novels and Homer Hickam's draft screenplay for "Torpedo Junction" (the book he wrote about my grandfather), went up in our house fire of 2012, I had about half of the library in my office, thank goodness. I've since put over 200 books back on the shelves....
 
Gilligan

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Kyle said:
A friend of mine picked that up and was going to loan it to me upon completion, but I may just throw it on the check out and be done with it.
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Just this snapshot of the shelf where my copy of that book resides can give you some idea of the rather eclectic mix/range of books I collect and read.
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Kyle

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Hessian said:
THAT (and many other reasons) is why we ought to be reading history.
Well done Kyle, Gilligan....you are 'men of letters.' Enjoy the read!
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my grandfather gets credit. He had a passion for American History, particularly the War of 1812, Civil War and Spanish-American War.

Spent a lot of time with books from his library.

Back then, however, I tended more towards the science and engineering books he had.
 
stgislander

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I read a book a few years back that starts out in St Mary's City and follows the English settlers exploring up the Potomac into the foothills is the Alleghenies. It was a good read. The author was working on a sequel, but I think passed away before finishing it. I think my brother still has a copy. I'll see if I can get the title and author.
 
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