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Maryland was a key marginal.
If it had voted Confederate, Washington DC would have been totally surrounded by enemy states - and it looked as though it would go that way.
Lincoln thought the situation was so critical that he suspended habeas corpus in order to jail certain political leaders who were pro-Confederate.
It caused controversy throughout the war, and the state was deeply divided. (Lincoln's assassin planned his outrage in a Maryland boarding-house.) But the state did actually stay loyal. And that was the crucial thing.
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