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Foner, Eric (2001). "The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom". Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 27(1: Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War): pp. 8–101. doi:10.2307/4102836. JSTOR 4102836. Ochiai, Akiko (March 2001). "The Port Royal Experiment Revisited: Northern Visions of Reconstruction and the Land Question".
'The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered (LSU Press, 2021). excerpt; good place to start; Miller, Richard F. ed. States at War, Volume 4: A Reference Guide for Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey in the Civil War (2015) excerpt 890 pp. Soderberg, Susan Cooke. Lest we forget: a guide to Civil War monuments in Maryland (1995) online
These Islands are relatively permanent, although some are disappearing on the scale of a few centuries, like Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. There are also a number of unnamed islands in Maryland, many of which are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few years or decades, both in the tidal environment and also in Maryland's larger ...
Fort Carroll is a 3.4-acre (1.4 ha) artificial island and abandoned hexagonal sea fort in the middle of the Patapsco River, just south of Baltimore, Maryland. It is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), a signer of the Declaration of Independence .
The islands were supposed to be included in the 1900 transfer of islands from Spain to the United States. Per the terms of the treaty, the United Kingdom continued to administer the islands until requested, and, after the Philippines' independence, the Philippine government made such a request and took control. [396] Pacific Ocean: May 29, 1933
The islands are very narrow in many places and one can easily see water, the Chesapeake Bay and the Honga River, on both sides of Maryland Route 335 which travels through the islands. [ 3 ] Upper Hoopers island is located at N. 38°20' W. 76°14 and Middle Hoopers island is located at N. 38°16' W. 76°11.
Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland.To the east, a narrow channel known as the Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula, and on the other side, the island is separated from Sandy Point, an area near Annapolis, by roughly four miles (6.4 km) of water.
Poplar Island is a 3-mile-long (4.8-kilometer-long) island located on the Chesapeake Bay, part of Talbot County, Maryland. In the late 1800s it had a population of 100 living in the town of Valliant but it was abandoned by the 1920s due to erosion of the island. By the 1990s its land mass had dwindled down to a few acres.