Editing Maryland

'''Maryland''' is a [[States of the Confederate States of America|state]] of the [[Confederate States of America]]. It borders the Confederate state of [[Virginia]] to the south and west, the [[States of the United States of America|Union states]] of [[Pennsylvania]] and [[Delaware]] to the north and east respectively (across the [[Mason-Dixon line]]), and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Its capital is [[Annapolis]] and its largest city is [[Baltimore]].

== History==
=== War of Southern Independence ===
Maryland very nearly remained with the Union during the [[War of Southern Independence]]. A number of leading citizens, including physician and slaveholder [[Richard Sprigg Steuart]], placed considerable pressure on Governor [[Thomas Holliday Hicks]] to summon the state Legislature to vote on secession. The rumor quickly reached President [[Abraham Lincoln]], who was allegedly terrified that the Legislature would vote to secede and cut off [[Washington, D.C.]], especially after the [[Baltimore Riots]], and so he wrote an order to Major General [[Robert Patterson]] of the Department of Washington (Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia) to "detain those who would violate the integrity of the Union through their seditious sentiments." Patterson had already ordered Brigadier General [[Benjamin Butler]], with the 8th Massachusetts, to open and secure a route from [[Annapolis]] through [[Annapolis Junction]] to [[Washington, D.C.]], and was to send the arrest order to him as well. However, the order ended up in the hands of Baltimore mayor [[George William Brown]], who immediately took it to the press; when the 8th Massachusetts arrived by ship at Annapolis on April 20, the [[Lincoln Arrest Order]], as it became popularly known, caused outrage across Maryland and led to the "[[Battle of Annapolis]]" where a mob / militia drove the 8th Massachusetts back to the sea.