Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5 In Two Volumes By L. Allison Wilmer, 1899 834 + 286 pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable ************************************************* Digital EBook CD Requires Adobe 7 or higher to view ************************************************* $13.99 + 1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Maryland-Volunteers-War-1861-65-Civil-War-/130345557722?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e59335eda . The survivors and their descendants of many of the Union states were quick to publish books on the soldiers and battles. In Maryland it took three decades before the legislature determined the matter was non-partisan and patriotic, and gave approval. Maryland was one of the border states, straddling the North and South. As in Virginia and Delaware, numerous planters in Maryland had freed their slaves in the twenty years after the Revolutionary War.