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1. WESTMI_080803_21.JPG: Divided Loyalties The Neal Family -- Gettysburg Campaign -- A block away, at what is now 71 East Main Street, stood the Abner Neal house. In August 1862, Federal soldiers arrested sixteen Westminster residents as Southern sympathizers and escorted them in Baltimore for questioning. The group, soon realized, included Neal's two sons, Henry and Frank. The young men joined the Confederate army in September 1862, when Col. Thomas L. Rosser's 5th Virginia Cavalry swept through Westminster during the Antietam Campaign. The Neals served in Co. D, 1st Maryland Cavalry (CSA). They returned home on June 29, 1863, helping guide Gen. JEB Stuart's cavalry corps through Maryland en route to Gettysburg. As their mother, Rose, and sister, Mary, sat in their second floor parlor reading the Bible, they heard a shout -- "The Rebels are coming!" -- in the street. Stepping to the balcony, they asked, "How do you know they are Rebels?" The answer came, "I know Henry and Frank Neal!" At that moment, Rose Neal placed a bookmark in the Bible where she had stopped reading, and it was never removed. Soon, the Neal boys waved hello as they rode west on Main Street, but before long they dashed by the other way in pursuit of Delaware cavalrymen escaping toward Baltimore. After the war, Rose Neal warned her sons against returning home because of anti-Confederate sentiment, and they never came back. On July 4, after the Battle of Gettysburg, Union Gen. John Gibbon arrived at the house, where Rose Neal treated his wounds. She was his wife's aunt.
2. WESTMI_080803_27.JPG: Westminster Depot Pressed Into Service -- Getttysburg Campaign -- During the Civil War, railroads for the first time attained strategic importance for transporting troops and equipment. On July 1, 1863, Gen. Herman Haupt, chief of US Military Railroads, assumed control here of the Western Maryland Railroad to supply the army engaged at Gettysburg. He found a depot nearby as well as several large grain and flour warehouses. Two days earlier, however, after a cavalry action in the streets, hungry Confederates had raided the warehouses for food for themselves and grain for their famished horses. Haupt made a covered wagon his temporary office and quickly created a military supply depot here. Four hundred Railroad Construction Corpsmen soon arrived from Alexandria, Virginia with lanterns, buckets and rails. They hauled water from a nearby impoundment and brought in firewood for the steam locomotives. Soon, 30 trains in 5-train convoys moved 1,500 tons of supplies and ammunition in 150 cars daily from Baltimore to Westminster. Previously, the single-track line, completed in 1861, had carried only four trains a day. Within two days, the army's needs were more than met, and excess supplies went to Gettysburg hospitals. Thousand of Union wounded and almost 7,000 Confederate prisoners passed through the Westminster July 1-7. Ellen Orbison Harris of the Philadelphia Ladies Aid Society wrote on July 4, "Westminster, 4am, spent the night on the cars, being the only woman and with a kind-hearted baker and his wife, had an opportunity of comforting some of our wounded with pies and cakes of their manufacture."
3. WESTMI_080803_68.JPG: Mural in Westminster, Maryland
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Wikipedia Description: Westminster, Maryland
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Westminster is a city in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The population was 16,731 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Carroll County. Westminster is within the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Westminster is a partner city with Paide, Estonia. Westminster is the home of McDaniel College, the Carroll County Fair, Common Ground on the Hill, and the Maryland Wine Festival. ...

Trivia:

Westminster is the birthplace of Sargent Shriver (born 1915), former candidate for Vice President of the United States and brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy.

Westminster's ZIP codes are 21157 and 21158.

In April 1865, Joseph Shaw, newspaper editor, had his presses wrecked and his business destroyed, and was subsequently beaten and stabbed to death by four men in Westminster, allegedly because of an anti-Lincoln editorial that was published the week before the actual assassination. In a later trial at the Westminster Court House the four men were acquitted; the reason cited was "self-defense."

Just north of Westminster is the farm at which Whittaker Chambers hid the so-called "pumpkin papers."

A historic marker states that Westminster was the first place in the nation to offer Rural Free Delivery postal service.

The film For Richer or Poorer was filmed in Westminster

The Hashawha Tower is a windmill in Westminster. It stands at the Hashawha Bear Branch Nature Center.

Controversy:

In 2001, ABC News produced a story calling Westminster the heroin capital of the country because of drug problems at Westminster High School, once called "Heroin High," with overdoses peaking at more than three per week.

In 2000, one member of the Carroll County Drug Task Force, Detective Richard Ruby, was accused of planting drugs on suspects and was suspended with pay. As a result, a number of drug cases had to be dismissed because of the compromised security of the evidence due to Ruby's i ...More...
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2008 photos: Trips this year: (1) Civil War Preservation Trust annual conference in Springfield, Missouri , (2) a week in New York, (3) a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con, (4) a driving trip to St. Louis, and (5) a visit to dad and Dixie's in Asheville, North Carolina. Ego strokes: A picture I'd taken last year during a Friends of the Homeless event was published in USA Today with a photo credit and everything! I became a volunteer photographer with the AFI/Silver theater. Equipment this year: I was using three cameras -- the Fuji S9000 and the Canon Rebel Xti from last year, and a new camera, the Fuji S100fs. The first two cameras had their pluses and minuses and I really didn't have a single camera that I thought I could use for just about everything. But I loved the S100fs and used it almost exclusively this year. Number of photos taken this year: 330,000.
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