Religion and Politics in Maryland on the Eve of the Civil War

Awarded the Certificate of Commendation of the American Association for State and Local HistoryIn this collection of letters written by members of a prominent Maryland family on the eve of and during the Civil War, David Hein has found gold in the mine of his state's historical society. This book immerses the reader in civilian life as civil war approached, fiercely as a wind-driven wildfire-civilian life personified by the family of Allen Bowie Davis, a prosperous farmer-legislator from Montgom