Maryland Home Guards

Item Information

• Description
  Circular letter addressed to the people of Maryland with the byline "We know our rights, and we will defend them!" The Middletown Home Guards and the Frederick Home Guards state that they refuse to give up their arms, despite a newly passed resolution by the Maryland legislature which states that the Governor is to disarm the Home Guards. Each group says they will keep hold to their arms to the death.

• Item ID
  bdsmd40983
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Maryland
  Frederick County (Md.)
  Middletown (Md.)
  Frederick (Md.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Maryland Home Guards
• Extent
  1 scan
• Date
  1861-1862
• Folder
  MD4
• Type
  Text
  circular letters
• Subject
  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  Politics and government

• Copyright & Usage
  None