Daniel Carroll Toomey
Auteur de The Civil War in Maryland
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Daniel Carroll Toomey
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Linthicum, Maryland, USA
- Études
- University of Maryland School of Business
- Professions
- historian
- Organisations
- Baltimore Civil War Roundtable
Maryland National Guard Military Historical Society (Director)
Maryland Military Monuments Commission
Project Historian for the Maryland Memorial erected at Gettysburg (1994) - Prix et distinctions
- Gettysburg National Battlefield Award (1985)
- Courte biographie
- Daniel Carroll Toomey is a native Marylander who family ties go back to the late 1700's when Daniel Henry Toomey left Ireland and came to this country to teach school on the estate of Charles Carroll of Carrollton in Howard County. Since the earliest days of his childhood, the author has been interested in history in general and especially Maryland's participation in the Civil War.
Dan Toomey has won numerous awards for his historical research and exhibits include the Gettysburg National Battlefield Award in 1985. His two fondest accomplishments are writing the inscription for the Maryland Monument at Gettysburg and playing on the first ever Howard County lacrosse team in 1964. [from The Civil War in Maryland, 1983]
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small format, 30 pages, paper bound, black & white photos, maps, roster, notes
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 131
- Popularité
- #154,467
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 10
- Favoris
- 1
Toomey is pretty even-handed, although more sympathetic to the Confederacy that I am. Of course, my parents were from Pennsylvania. One thing that I would take a bit of issue with is he insistence that Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus was definitely illegal. The Constitution says that its suspension is legal, but never says who can impose it. (Thanks for being vague, Founding Fathers.) One wonders if they couldn't agree and decided to let posterity sort that out. Clearly, if both Congress and the President concur, it's legal. I only wonder why Congress didn't approve it for two years. Did Lincoln not ask? I would have thought that the Congress of the time would have been supportive. Perhaps he was afraid that if they disagreed there would be a wrangle over authority that he didn't want to risk. Of course, they don't seem to have tried to stop him. Perhaps they couldn't agree on any action at first. For a very interesting book on Congress and Lincoln at the time, you might want to read Congress at War, by Fergus M. Bordewich.
I have also wondered what might have happened if the Confederates had tried to march through eastern Maryland, where they presumably had more support, that being the area where more plantations and slaves were? Did they not know this or were the logistics against it? This is not a subject that Toomey was intending to cover, so that's no criticism of him.
I enjoyed the book very much, and I think that other Marylanders, particularly in the center of the state, will too. I shall definitely be looking for some of his other books.… (plus d'informations)