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During the US Civil War there were significant numbers of people not living in the Confederacy, to sympathize with the Southern cause. Prospective people that fit into this group were slave owners and regular citizens in the so-called "Border States" that not only hoped for Southern independence, but actively supported Confederate guerrillas when they raided the North. They gave them supplies and information about Union troops movements.To put this situation in a better perspective, President Lincoln was so concerned about Confederate sympathizers in Maryland that Union troops and artillery were threatened against any groups of pro-Southern people early in 1861.

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