Greetings--
katdixo wrote:
> "Maryland, My Maryland" is about the Civil War, and it is pro-South.
> The references to the "tyrant," "vandal," etc., mean Lincoln. (With
> some justification--Lincoln did not treat Maryland well during the war.)
>
> I don't know what all the other references are. Both Charles County
> and Carroll County are named after Charles Carroll, but I don't know
> whether he's the Carroll in the song or not.
>
If it's not Charles Carroll III (who was a Revolutionary War
contemporary and signatory of the Declaration of
Independence--interestingly enough, the only Catholic to do so), it's
the Carroll family in general (Charles Carroll I came over in 1688, I
believe), which is up there with Lord Baltimore's family as one of the
biggies in the early history of Maryland.
They're distant relatives of mine.
Susan Carroll-Clark
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