| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Maryland's Blue and Gray: A Border State's Union and Confederate Junior Officer Corps. By Kevin Conley Ruffner. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xviii, 428 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8071-2135-5.)

The Civil War in Maryland was in many ways a microcosm of the events that afflicted the entire nation. As a border state, Maryland held conflicting loyalties between the Union and the new Confederate States of America. Its role in the struggle reflected those divided allegiances as its men, following the dictates of either conscience or kinship, were compelled to choose sides. 1

While the number of Marylanders who served in the Union and Confederate armies is still the subject of discussion, it is estimated that up to 60,000 of the state's men, both black and white, served in various branches of the Union military; and, though the state did not officially recruit troops for Confederate service, as many as 25,000 Marylanders may have fought for the South. . . .

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