Talk:Thomas Holliday Hicks

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Thomas Hicks was governor of Maryland during the secession crisis (1861). He was likely sympathetic to the Confederacy, as were many Eastern Shore men. As a result he was severely criticized in newspapers favoring the Union. His mistress during the period is said to have been Anna Ella Carroll, probably the most famous woman in Maryland history, and an ardent supporter of the Union. She is credited with persuading Hicks to keep Maryland neutral during the Civil War. Carroll herself deserves an article. She was a close relative in a collateral line of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She smoked cigars, wore bloomers, and was confidant of men in the highest places, including Abraham Lincoln. See 	Great Necessities: The Life, Times and Writings of Anna Ella Carroll, 1815-1894 by C. Kay Larson.

Baltimore Riots
'After initially denying that he had authorized such actions, Hicks backtracked and voiced his support for the Union.'

Sentence doesn't make sense. The 'actions' meant the burning of railroad bridges to keep Union troops from entering the state. If he denied that he taken these actions, he must have been trying to express support for the Union. So any subsequent backtracking would have been to keep the Confederates sweet. Valetude (talk) 19:00, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Time for a reassessment?
Been a minute since anybody updated but this governor was very interesting. FTIIIOhfive (talk) 00:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC)