Maryland Historical Magazine, 1983, Volume 78, Issue No. 1
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Maryland Historical Masazine Published Quarterly by The Museum and Library of Maryland History The Maryland Historical Society Spring 1983 THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS, 1982-1983 J. Fife Symington, Jr., Chairman* Robert G. Merrick, Sr., Honorary Chairman Leonard C. Crewe, Jr., Vice Chairman* Frank H. Weller, Jr., President* Mrs. Charles W. Cole, Jr., Vice President* Richard P. Moran, Secretary* E. Phillips Hathaway, Vice President* Mrs. Frederick W. Lafferty, Treasurer* Truman T. Semans, Vice President* Samuel Hopkins, Past President* William C. Whitridge, Vice President* Bryson L. Cook, Counsel* * The officers listed above constitute the Society's Executive Committee. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1982-1983 H. Furlong Baldwin Richard R. Kline, Frederick Co. Mrs. Emory J. Barber, St. Mary's Co. John S. Lalley Gary Black, Jr. Calvert C. McCabe, Jr. James R. Herbert Boone (Honorary) Robert G. Merrick, Jr. John E. Boulais, Caroline Co. Michael Middleton, Charles Co. Thomas W. Burdette J. Jefferson Miller, II Mrs. James Frederick Colwill (Honorary) W. Griffin Morrel Owen Daly, II Jack Moseley Donald L. DeVries Thomas S. Nichols (Honorary) Leslie B. Disharoon Mrs. Brice Phillips, Worcester Co. Deborah B. English J. Hurst Purnell, Jr., Kent Co. Charles 0. Fisher, Carroll Co. George M. Radcliffe Louis L. Goldstein, Calvert Co. Adrian P. Reed, Queen Anne's Co. Anne L. Gormer, Allegany Co. Richard C. Riggs, Jr. Kingdon Gould, Jr., Howard Co. David Rogers, Wicomico Co. William Grant, Garrett Co. Terry M. Rubenstein Benjamin H. Griswold, III John D. Schapiro R. Patrick Hayman, Somerset Co. Jacques T. Schlenger Louis G. Hecht T. Rowland Slingluff, Jr. Edwin Mason Hendrickson, Washington Co. Jess Joseph Smith, Jr., Prince George's Co. T. Hughlett Henry, Jr., Talbot Co. John T. Stinson Matthew H. Hirsh Bernard C. Trueschler Michael Hoffberger Thomas D. Washburne E. Ralph Hostetter, Cecil Co. Jeffrey P. Williamson, Dorchester Co. Elmer M. Jackson, Jr., Anne Arundel Co. James T. Wollon, Jr. Harford Co. H. Irvine Keyser, II (Honorary) COUNCIL, 1982-1983 Mrs. Howard Baetjer, II Arthur J. Gutman Thomas W. Burdette Jon Harlan Livezey Mary E. Busch Calvert C. McCabe, Jr. Mrs. James E. Cantler Walter D. Pinkard Thomas M. Caplan George M. Radcliffe Mrs. Dudley I. Catzen W. Cameron Slack Walter Fisher John T. Stinson Arthur L. Flinner Mrs. Vernon H. Wiesand Romaine Stec Somerville, Director William B. Keller, Head Librarian Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Curator of the Gallery MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE (ISSN 0025-4268) is published quarterly by The Museum and Library of Maryland History, The Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St., Baltimore, Md. 21201. Second class postage paid at Baltimore, Md. and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER please send address changes to the MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 201 W. Monument St., Baltimore, Md. 21201. Composed and printed by Waverly Press, Inc., Baltimore, Md. 21202. © Copyright 1983, The Museum and Library of Maryland History, The Maryland Historical Society. Volume 78 MARYLAND Number 1 Spring 1983 ISBN-0025-4258 CONTENTS George Minor Anderson, Correspondence of Thomas Anderson of Rockville with His S.J. Parents, James and Mary Anderson, 1855-1859 1 John C. Brennan John Wilkes Booth's Enigmatic Brother Joseph 22 Curtis Carroll Davis "The Pet of the Confederacy" Still? Fresh Findings about Belle Boyd 35 Daniel E. Sutherland "Altamont" of the Tribune: John Williamson Palmer in the Civil War 54 Frederic Trautmann, ed. Maryland Through a Traveler's Eyes: A Visit by Samuel Ludvigh in 1846 67 Book Reviews Papenfuse and Coale, The Hammond-Harwood House Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608- 1908 by Gary L. Browne • Teeter, A Matter of Hours: Treason at Harper's Ferry by Karl G. Larew • Turner, Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Daniel E. Sutherland • Beveridge, McLaughlin and Schuyler, eds., The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Volume II: Slavery and the South, 1852-1857 by John B. Boles • Curry, The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850 by Dean R. Esslinger • Dowling, City Hospitals: The Undercare of the Underprivileged by Michael A. Cooke • Bullock, The Afro-American Periodical Press, 1838-1909 by Spencer R. Crew 72 NEWS AND NOTICES 80 MARYLAND PICTURE PUZZLE 81 ROADSIDE HISTORIC MARKERS AROUND THE STATE 82 HALL OF RECOrtDS LiBrtARY MWWOUS, MARYLAND E97 CAMP OF THE DURYEA'S [sic] ZOUAVES FEDERAL HILL BALTIMORE MD. LOOKING NORTH. LITH. & PRINT. BY E. SACHSE & CO., 104 S. CHARLES ST. BALTO., MD. ENTERED ... 1861 BY E. SACHSE & co ... MARYLAND.** Lithograph, printed in colors. 22 X 36.8 cm. State 2 (reproduced): MdBPM, MdHi, CCr. State 1: Title reads: CAMP OF THE DURYEA'S [sic] ZUAVES [sic] FEDERAL HILL BALTIMORE. MdBPM, VBHo. The Fifth Regiment New York Volunteers, better known as Duryee Zouaves after Colonel Abram Duryee, are shown here in July 1861 in a tent camp engaged in routine training and drill. By September the men of the regiment using picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows were loosening and throwing up dirt to construct the large earthwork shown in (E99). Thousands of visitors from the city came to Watch the spectacular performance. Baltimore American, July 29, 1981 Courtesy of the Peale Museum, Baltimore. Correspondence of Thomas Anderson of Rockville with His Parents, James and Mary Anderson, 1855-1859 GEORGE MINOR ANDERSON, S.J. X homas Anderson (1835-1900) was the sidered: James (1831-1920), and Mary (ca. second oldest son of James Wallace Ander- 1833-1910), Virginia (known as Ginnie; ca. son (1797-1881) of Vallombrosa, a 250 acre 1834-1913), Richard (1837-1855), Lily farm near Rockville on the present site of (1850-1868), and George Minor (known as Montgomery Junior College. James ini- Minor; 1857-1927). Thomas eventually tially practiced law in the area and was a went into practice with another Rockville judge of the Montgomery County Orphans lawyer, William Veirs Bouic. Court from 1848 to 1851. He served as a The majority of the letters were written delegate to the Maryland Constitutional from Vallombrosa, but because Thomas Convention of 1850-1851.' In 1854, he gave paid periodic visits of several days or longer up the active practice of law to take a to his father at the latter's boarding house position in the Sixth Auditor's Office of the in Washington, he also wrote a number of U.S. Post Office in Washington; his em- letters from there to his mother at home. ployment there continued until the out- As a result, the correspondence as a whole break of the Civil War, when he was dis- presents an interesting combination-pic- charged for refusing to sign the loyalty oath. ture of town and country life in the mid- During his years in Washington, James nineteenth century, seen from the perspec- commuted back and forth to Vallombrosa tive of a young man just starting out in every two or three weekends. The intervals professional life. between his visits were lengthy enough for Thomas was named after an uncle, there to be considerable correspondence. Thomas Anderson, himself a lawyer who Most of it was between James and his wife, lived for a period of years in Zanesville, Mary Minor (ca. 1810-1865), daughter of Ohio, and served in the Ohio State Senate Colonel George Minor (1777-1861) of before returning to Rockville. Law was con- Mount Pleasant in Fairfax County, Vir- sequently very much in the family, and ginia.2 The other older children wrote too, young Thomas' impatience to begin prac- though, especially Thomas who, as a young tice is perhaps all the more understandable. man following his father into the legal But this same eagerness made him at times profession (he was admitted to the Mary- difficult and demanding. Writing to Mary land bar in 1856) looked to him for advice Anderson on January 28, 1859, James de- and assistance in terms of establishing him- scribes his frustration at Thomas' impor- self in a professional capacity. tunities, emphasized by the unconsciously It was Thomas' hope that his father repeated use of the phrase "at once": would be able to help him set up practice in Washington, but James' small salary, Our [boarding] house is getting rather dull this dull weather, and Tom seems to be even with the income derived from the sale very tired of it and talks of coming home of surplus farm produce, made this hope an the first chance. He is constantly saying impossibility. Besides, there were seven that he could get along here and find busi- other children whose needs had to be con- ness to do. I believe he could, for he has been over to Georgetown one day this week, Other articles about the Anderson family have ap- and had the offer of good will of some of peared in the 1980 and 1981 issues of the Magazine. his acquaintance there as well as here. MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE VOL. 78, No. 1 (Spring 1983) MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE He wants to go on at once [into prac- Saturday last, where our party, I was tice], and I wish he could as much as he pleased to see, mustered much stronger does; and because he cannot rent an office than usual. Major Peter3 was appointed at once and furnish it decently at once, he president after which a committee of five is inclined to leave here for the present. I was appointed to nominate district officers tell him a visit here will do him no harm. He seems tired of all the people here and during their absence for consultation. Then cares for nothing but going into business at the president asked if there were any once. You know, with what I have had to gentlemen present who wished to address pay this month, I should not have enough the meeting; whereupon Mr.