Mid-Maryland history
Subtitle: from Civil War to civil rights
By: edited by Barbara M. Powell and Michael A. Powell.
Contributors: Powell, Barbara M. 1957-; Powell, Michael A.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781596294561
Subjects: Catoctin Mountain Regions -- History -- Congresses; Frederick County (Md.) -- History -- Congresses; Frederick Region (Md.) -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Selected historical papers from three conferences hosted by the Catoctin Center for Regional Studies along with the National Park Service and Frederick Community College: the Millennium Crossroads conference, held Sept. 29-30, 2000; Crossroads in History: New Perspectives on the Catoctin Region, held in 2002; and Catoctin Crossroads: Folk Traditions and History in Mid-Maryland, held in 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Confederate sentiment in Frederick County, Maryland from 1861-1862 / by Rebecca Miller; title: Another lost opportunity : Union troops break through the center at the Battle of Antietam / by Brian Baracz; title: "The sons of the defenders of the Alamo" on America's bloodiest days / by Kristopher Teters; title: Lead fog : practical limitations of rifle technology in the American Civil War / by Carl Robin; title: Memoirs of the daughters of charity as Civil War nurses in Maryland, 1862 / by Betty Ann McNeil; title: Crossroads and economic development : transportation and its effects on Frederick County / by Alan E. Imhoff; title: The Antietam Iron Works, 1806-1853: the times of a family owned works / by H. Marc Howell; title: Africa in Maryland : black ironworker populations at Antietam and Catoctin Ironworks, 1760-1860 / by Jean Libby; title: The enduring textile industry in Mid-Maryland / by Frances C. Robb; title: Rediscovering the past : John Brown, words, and artifacts / by Hannah Geffert; title: Margaret Janet Williams : Frederick philanthropist / by Katherine Grandine; title: Experiment in persuasion : the vigil to stop biological weapons at Fort Detrick, 1959-1960, and anti-war protest in the 1960s / by David Hostetter.