Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870 [Message to the People of Maryland to support the Confederacy]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07195 Author/Creator: Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870 Place Written: Fredericktown, Maryland Type: Broadside Date: 8 September 1862 Pagination: 1 p. ; 12.8 x 18.2 cm. Order a Copy
Addressed "To the People of Maryland," encouraging them to join the Confederacy and support the Confederate Forces. "The people of the Confederate States have long watched with the deepest sympathy the wrongs and outrages that have been inflicted upon the Citizens of a Commonwealth, allied to the States of the South by the strongest social, political and commercial ties...Our Army has come among you, and is prepared to assist you in throwing off this foreign yoke, to enable the inalienable rights of free men, and restore independence and sovereignty to your state." Written a week before the Battle of Antietam. Written at "Head-Quarters Army N. Va., Near Frederick Town."
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