Wow that's like totally cool! So your family has been in Maryland since forever? That's why I wasn't sure if the song was about all of MD history or just the Civil War. Seems to be about the Civil War with references to historical Maryland figures whose example the song wants us to follow or something like that.
--- In [email protected], Susan Carroll-Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weingartenchatters/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
