McCauley Lecture: ’The Rebels is Running Over our Parents’: Recruiting Virginia Unionists into the Potomac Home Brigade

6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Library Branch: Alice Virginia & David W. Fletcher Branch
Room: Combined Community Room 308/309
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Cultural Heritage & Genealogy
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In the spring of 1861 Francis Thomas, former governor of Maryland, put out a call for the creation of a “Home Brigade” to defend western Maryland from rebel incursions.

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