"Twenty-eight fugitives Escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland," October 28, 1857, detail

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Twenty-eight Fugitives Escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Source citation

By Wilbur F. Osler in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia: Porter & Coats, 1872), 103.

Source note
Engraving by Wilbur F. Osler, published in Still's book depicting the incident described on pages 99-101 of the book.

"Twenty-eight fugitives Escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland," October 28, 1857

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Original caption
Twenty-eight Fugitives Escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Source citation

By Wilbur F. Osler in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia: Porter & Coats, 1872), 103.

Source note
Engraving by Wilbur F. Osler, published in Still's book depicting the incident described on pages 99-101 of the book.

Talbot County, Maryland, 1857

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Mitchell's New Universal Atlas.... (Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857), 16.
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Cropped from the larger original image of the state of Maryland, also available here.

Somerset County, Maryland, 1857

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Mitchell's New Universal Atlas.... (Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857), 16.
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Cropped from the larger original image of the state of Maryland, also available here.

Worcester County, Maryland, 1857

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Mitchell's New Universal Atlas.... (Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857), 16.
Source note
Cropped from the larger original image of the state of Maryland, also available here.

David Wyatt Aiken (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
“Aiken, David Wyatt,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000061.
AIKEN, David Wyatt,  (father of Wyatt Aiken and cousin of William Aiken), a Representative from South Carolina; born in Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S.C., March 17, 1828; received his early education under private tutors; attended Mount Zion Institute, Winnsboro, and was graduated from South Carolina University, at Columbia, in 1849; taught school two years; engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1852; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a private; appointed adjutant and later elected colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Volunteers; relieved from servic
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

Caroline County, Maryland, 1857

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Source citation
Mitchell's New Universal Atlas.... (Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857), 16.
Source note
Cropped from the larger original image of the state of Maryland, also available here.
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