Carroll 250 Event: Maryland Invaded! Presented by Stan Haynes

During the Civil War, in September 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s army crossed the Potomac River from Virginia and invaded the Union state of Maryland. Lee wanted to turn Maryland to the Confederacy. It did not go as he hoped, with much of the population indifferent, or hostile, to the Rebels. And then came the Battle of Antietam. Join author Stan Haynes for a discussion of the invasion and the reaction of Marylanders to it.

Stan Haynes is an attorney and author who spent his career as a litigator with a Baltimore law firm. He has had a lifelong interest in American history. His most recent book, And Slavery No More, is historical fiction, and is set during the Civil War. This book will be on sale the evening of the talk. 

He has two other historical novels that explore the years before the war. One, And Tyler No More, is set in the 1840s and the other, And Union No More, is set in the 1850s. 

He has also written three nonfiction books on the history of presidential nominating conventions. Two of these, The First American Political Conventions and President-Making in the Gilded Age, concern the conventions held in the Nineteenth Century. His third book on the conventions, Roosevelt to Roosevelt, is about the conventions held in the first half of the Twentieth Century. He has spoken about his books at several presidential homes and libraries.

 All of his books are available on Amazon and other book websites.

Questions? Please contact Laura Bankard, Outreach & Events Director at 410.848.6494 ext. 200 or lbankard@hsccmd.org.