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The Union - after Lincoln had taken the drastic step of jailing (without trial) local leaders with pro-Confederate sympathies.

Maryland was one of the slave-owning states that remained loyal, and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation exempted these states from forced Abolition.

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Q: Which side did Maryland fight for in the civil war?
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