Editing Port Tobacco Village, Maryland (section)

===Civil War===
During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Port Tobacco became known as a stronghold of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] sympathizers, although [[Union Army|Union]] troops occupied the town. [[Rose O'Neal Greenhow]] (1814–1864), born here, became renowned as a Confederate spy operating in Washington, DC. Recruited by former US Army captain [[Thomas Jordan (general)|Thomas Jordan]], later promoted to Confederate general, she took over his network in early 1861.<ref>Fishel, Edwin C. ''The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War'', New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996, pp. 59-76</ref> Due to military plans she passed to the Confederates that summer, she was credited with ensuring their victory at the [[First Battle of Bull Run]] in July 1861.<ref name="bioArc">[https://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/AdvancedSearchForm "Greenhow, Rose O'Neal"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120211241/https://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/AdvancedSearchForm |date=January 20, 2016 }}, (1817-1864), ''The National Archives – People Description''. 1817-1864, (accessed February 5, 2013)</ref>  Local slaves were [[abolitionism in the United States|freed]] following Maryland's adoption of a new Constitution on November 1, 1864 (the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] of 1863 did not apply to states which remained in the Union). During the hunt for [[John Wilkes Booth]] after the assassination of President [[Abraham Lincoln]], intelligence gathered in a Port Tobacco hotel (Brawner Hotel) (conspirator [[George Atzerodt]] lived in town) established the assassin had fled with his companion Herold into Virginia, where they were ultimately located and Herold surrendered, but Booth died during the attempted capture.