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Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylanders’ hearts throughout the Civil War, as enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops, spies and smugglers, and civilians imprisoned without trial all reflected neighbors and families at odds in Maryland and on faraway battlefields. From the Eastern Shore to the suburbs of Washington, eastern Maryland endured strains of civil war that continued even after Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. After shooting President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth used the help of Southern Maryland’s Confederate underground during his flight from Washington, D.C., before his eventual capture south of the Potomac River.
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