From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL> To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:46:20 -0500 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Negative on this one, Ron. Maryland never seceded. An unauthorized group of legislators left Annapolis attempting to convene an illegal secession convention but they were arrested by Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler to prevent the proposed unconstitutional act. He was in a bad mood because secessionists had rioted in Baltimore and fired on Federal troops while they were passing peacefully thru the United States state of Maryland on legitimate business. -----Original Message----- From: lee gilliland [mailto:leeandalexis at hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:24 AM To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions ----Original Message Follows---- From: ronkean at juno.com Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:48:53 -0500 On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:33:56 -0500 "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com> writes: > Yep, that's the way they taught it in Spartanburg > And I never attended school in the South, unless Maryland is counted as part of the South. Of course it is. The only reason Maryland wasn't a member of the Confederacy was that Lincoln had it occupied so that Washington wouldn't be isolated from the Northern states it was leading. originally, it WAS a Confederate state. _________________________________________________________________