Annapolis Junction

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A strategic railroad junction where the B&O railroad met the Annapolis and Elkridge railroad, the very end of which can be seen through the cleared trees. Most of the right of way is now a power line.

On April 27, 1861, President Lincoln gave the Commanding General of the U.S. Army, Winfield Scott, the following instructions in order to prevent secession-minded Marylanders from interfering with this strategic railroad junction:

"You are engaged in repressing an insurrection against the laws of the United States. If at any point on or in the vicinity of the military line, which is now used between the City of Philadelphia and the City of Washington, via Perryville, Annapolis City, and Annapolis Junction, you find resistance which renders it necessary to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus for the public safety, you, personally or through the officer in command at the point where the resistance occurs, are authorized to suspend that writ."

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