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Collection Reference Number GLC05296.02
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1890s 
Title "Maryland, My Maryland"
Date 13 June 1893
Author Randall, James Ryder (1839-1908)  
Document Type Miscellany
Content Description Handwritten copy of Randall's poem as requested by Isaac N. Roland (see GLC05296.01). Copy is noted at end "Originally written, in 1861, at Pointe Coupee La [Louisiana] by James R. Randall."
Subjects Literature and Language Arts  Poetry  
People Randall, James Ryder (1839-1908)  
Place written Baltimore, Maryland
Theme Arts & Literature
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Randall wrote "Maryland, My Maryland" while at school in Louisiana in 1861. Eventually "Maryland, My Maryland" was adopted as the State song of Maryland in 1939.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
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