Impression of this seal, which dates back to 1648, has been preserved on numerous documents from the proprietary era. The legislature has another chance to repeal Maryland’s Confederate state song “Maryland, My Maryland” this session. [xii] Richard Henry Spencer, “The Provincial Flag of Maryland,” Maryland Historical Magazine, 9, no. About six thousand former soldiers and sympathizers attended the procession. “It’s right there on the state’s website.”. (AP) — After decades of debate, legislators are finally sensing strong support for repealing Maryland… ), Figure 3 (Reverse side of the Great Seal of 1648), Figure 4 (reverse side of the Great Seal adopted in 1854), Figure 5 (Regimental flag of the First Maryland, C.S.A., known as the “Bucktail” Flag. [xlv], Throughout its existence during the 19th century and beyond, the Fifth prided itself on being the best maintained and disciplined militia of Maryland and one of the best in the entire country. 1: James Madison, Not the Father of the Constitution, Nullification, A Constitutional History, 1776-1833. [xxxiv] Fannie Beers, Memories: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War (Harvard University: Press of J.B. Lippincott Company, 1889) https://books.google.com/books?id=TBYTAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s  279-284. There’s a store in Hampden, Baltimore in a Box, whose entire brick rowhouse exterior has been painted to replicate the flag. And crosses bottony are fixed to the tombstones of Confederate soldiers in Maryland and monuments to Maryland’s Confederate soldiers at the Gettysburg battlefield. And local citizens caught wearing the colors red and white during the war, or dressing their babies in such, could be charged with treason. [xiv]  This was ultimately corrected in 1876, when the state government, based on old proprietary era documents at hand, ordered that the reverse of the Great Seal be corrected to its exact 1648 specifications. [xxvi] Description of First Maryland regimental flag comes from using picture in “Straddling Secession.”  Description of the Second Maryland regimental flag comes from Manakee and Whiteford, 20. Throughout nearly every decade in Maryland’s storied past, whether on the Great Seal or seemingly countless numbers of flags, the quartered Calvert and Crosland coat of arms have borne witness to innumerable events, both noble and tragic. It consists of the escutcheon (heraldic shield) of his father George, 1st Baron Baltimore (1579–1632), with the charges and fields from his coat of arms quartered with those of his grandmother, heiress of the Crossland family in the Kingdom of England. An initial cursory investigation using the internet puts forth the argument that during the war, since Maryland did not secede, the recently popular black and gold flags which represented the Calvert Arms became associated the Union, while Confederate-sympathizing Marylanders, as response to this, adopted the colors of red and white which represented the Crosland arms. [iii]  The conversion back to his childhood religion did not harm his standing in the eyes of the king, who, at the same time, rewarded Calvert’s faithful service by elevating him to Baron of Baltimore, due to his “gravity of manners, singular gifts of mind, candour, integrity, and prudence.”[iv]  Upon this grant of nobility, Calvert’s coat of arms was officially given a full achievement in recognition of his noble status, marked by two leopards supporting either side of his shield. Though the power vested only with the US Congress, Mr. Lincoln also took it upon himself to suspend the writ… ». [viii] What is perplexing, regarding the quartering, is on what authority (if any) Cecil had in using the Crosland arms. Leaving aside the points already made earlier in this essay which call this argument into serious question, and in addition to the fact that the monument to the Second Maryland on Culp’s Hill also bears the Great Seal (same as it was on the Second Maryland regimental flag), it would only seem natural, for religious reasons, to choose the cross bottony over the paly of six. Written originally as a poem by James Ryder Randall during the Civil War era in 1861, the song ‘Maryland, My Maryland… The Fifth Regiment, 1867-1899 discusses the sterling reputation the Fifth had throughout the United States and Europe. The flag of the Union Army of Maryland Confederate support in Maryland was especially strong in the central, mostly white part of Baltimore and on the Eastern Shore. Hall. According to the newspaper, “all the rebel soldiers and many others who took part in the demonstration wore the red, white and red badges.”[xxxvii]. Unofficial state flag of Maryland used by secessionists during American Civil War. See also Coakley, 262. Chronicles the history of the design and creation of a flag that became the prototype for the famous Confederate battle flags. As for the flag, though one did not officially exist prior to the 20th century, the reintroduction of the Calvert-Crosland arms on the Great Seal in 1854 was followed by a public reappearance of black and gold flags, representing the Calvert colors. https://books.google.com/books?id=Nf4MAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.ahe1867.0001.001;view=1up;seq=214, https://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.21595/?sp=1&st=slideshow, http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/images/fig08.jpg, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/ma01.asp, https://books.google.com/books?id=PltKAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s, http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/symbols/seal.html, http://sos.maryland.gov/Pages/Services/Flag-History.aspx, http://www.2ndmarylandcod.com/MEMBERSHIP/COMPANY-D/resource-center/library/confederate-military-histor.pdf, http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000117/pdf/am117p–5.pdf, https://books.google.com/books?id=63NDCgAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s, https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/08/19/marylands-flag-confederate-symbol-crossland-banner-calvert-family/, http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5300/sc5339/000052/000000/000004/restricted/govpub/i/005423/html/34139-0006.html, https://books.google.com/books?id=I89eYqTFJ6kC&source=gbs_navlinks_s, http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/hicks/html/case6.html, http://www.citadel.edu/root/star-ofthe-west-152, http://www.citizenscompanion.com/a-blood-red-field-the-colors-of-the-confederacy/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/119297118/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/251051214/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/325557671/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/371578825/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/372168982/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/168223143/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/32011861/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/339037141/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/85645856/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/27271632/, https://books.google.com/books?id=TBYTAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s, https://www.newspapers.com/image/202111640/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/53886942/, http://www.historynet.com/rare-artifacts-from-confederate-maryland-soldiers.htm, http://gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/confederate-monuments/confederate-unit-monuments/2nd-maryland/, http://moconfederacy.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/6C3B5994-EBA9-4343-A65D-794067510931, https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/10565857_135-rare-confederate-artillery-guidon-4th-maryland-li, http://military.maryland.gov/NG/Pages/175th-Inf-Reg.aspx, http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5300/sc5339/000052/000000/000001/restricted/speccol/sc5300/sc5390/000001/000000/000001/html/00066-0001.html, https://ia802607.us.archive.org/8/items/1730memorialvolu00balt/1730memorialvolu00balt_bw.pdf. See also Manakee and Whiteford, 19, 24. There is also the possibility that the cross itself imbued a certain religious crusade quality to the Confederate effort in the minds of its faithful. Maryland was a border state in 1861, and many of its residents at the time sympathized with Randall's call to secede from the Union. See also Bibbins 289-290. The significance of red and white, however, while seemingly derived from the Crosland colors, is not necessarily clear. [xvii]  This was never more evident than during the early days of the War Between the States in April 1861, as attested by Bradley T. Johnson, who would go on to become a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army and arguably Maryland’s most distinguished soldier in that war. Virginia removed from its capitol the busts and a statue honoring Confederate generals and officials, including a bronze statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee. 1st Maryland Artillery, CSA (a.k.a. [xliii] James Brewer, History of the 175th (Fifth Maryland) (Maryland Historical Society, 1955), 155-157. Judged by Clyde Wilson to be the "standard" on Madison for sometime. [lv] Francis Culver, The True Story of Maryland’s Flag (Baltimore: Waverley Press Inc., 1934), 19. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Mississippi adopted a magnolia symbol as it replaced the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem. [liv] “History of the Maryland Flag.”  The only book found for this article which contain Mayer’s sketches is a reprint, Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Settlement of Baltimore (Baltimore: 1881) https://ia802607.us.archive.org/8/items/1730memorialvolu00balt/1730memorialvolu00balt_bw.pdf. The 1868 flag was somewhat damaged in the 1933 fire at the Fifth Regiment Armory, but after personally checking himself, Mr. Balkoski, historian at the Maryland Museum of Military History, confirmed the colors. Maryland was a border state in 1861, ... Jones voted to remove a plaque that honored the Civil War’s Union and Confederate soldiers and showed the U.S. flag and Confederate flag crossed. True to form, as an homage to their past, the regiment chose “a uniform suspiciously reminiscent of that of the late Confederate army. At least for now. [xxv] Manakee and Whiteford, 16-20. Manakee and Whiteford states that in 1888 he was a major and quartermaster. The historic record of the War Between the States definitively shows a direct relationship between Maryland soldiers who served in the Confederacy and the cross bottony of the Crosland arms. Sisco, with the compliments of C.C.H.”  Charles and John Sisco were owners of an old flag-making business in Baltimore. It is near impossible to express any admiration of the antebellum South without incurring the wrath of the perpetually offended mob, online or otherwise. There is still no evidence to date, however, that explains why the Southern sympathizers in Maryland—some 25,000 men joined the Confederate Army—embraced the red and white quadrant and cross bottony. Raina Weinberg started this petition to Governor Larry Hogan and 10 others. (AP) – After decades of debate, legislators are finally sensing strong support for repealing Maryland's state song, a Civil War-era call to arms for the Confederacy against "Northern scum" that refers to President Abraham Lincoln as a despot. [xlii]  There can be little doubt that the cross bottony on these flags is an homage to the Crosland arms of Maryland. [xxxviii]  The most indelible example of this can be found on the monument to the Second Maryland at Gettysburg. [xxxii] “Secession Stories from Abroad,” Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio), July 13, 1862, https://www.newspapers.com/image/32011861/. He graduated from Oxford in 1597 with a bachelor’s degree and, afterward, received a master’s degree in 1605 or 1606. Here you'll find historical flags from the Civil War era including the 1st, 2nd and 3rd National Confederate flags as well as the traditional rebel flags for sale. Pins in the cross bottony shape were worn on uniforms, and the headquarters flag of the Maryland-born Confederate general Bradley T. Johnson was a red cross bottony on a white field… As the slow process of reconciliation took place in post-Civil War Maryland, a new symbol emerged. 0 have signed. See also “Heamans’ Narrative,” Maryland Historical Magazine, 4, no. By 1854, upon the recommendation of Governor Louis E. Lowe, who believed the Great Seal should consist of the historic coat of arms of Maryland, the Calvert-Crosland quartered shield returned to the reverse side of the seal (the American Eagle was engraved on the obverse). “Maryland, My Maryland,” set to the traditional seasonal tune of “O, Tannenbaum,” was written as a poem in 1861 by James Ryder Randall and adopted as the state song in 1939. The Maryland Legislature flipped them to their present positions in 1904. Certainly, the creation of the state flag was not an effort to repair the harm of two and a half centuries of slavery in Maryland to African Americans. 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