The Hagerstown Mass Meeting
Summary
Marylanders J. A. J. Cresswell, John L. Thomas and Francis Thomas spoke at the Union Mass Meeting in Hagerstown . Resolutions were adopted thanking veterans, opposing office holding by former Confederate leaders, and “opposing negro suffrage in Maryland.”
Article Source
Newspaper: The Valley Register
Publication Date: May 18th, 1866
Page/Column: 2C
Town: Middletown, MD
County: Frederick
Subjects
- Politics
- African Americans
- Aftermath of War / Reconstruction
