Talk:Thomas Holliday Hicks
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Thomas Hicks was governor of Maryland during the secession crisis (1861). He was likely sympathetic to the Confederacy, as were many Eastern Shore men. As a result he was severely criticized in newspapers favoring the Union. His mistress during the period is said to have been Anna Ella Carroll, probably the most famous woman in Maryland history, and an ardent supporter of the Union. She is credited with persuading Hicks to keep Maryland neutral during the Civil War. Carroll herself deserves an article. She was a close relative in a collateral line of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She smoked cigars, wore bloomers, and was confidant of men in the highest places, including Abraham Lincoln. See Great Necessities: The Life, Times and Writings of Anna Ella Carroll, 1815-1894 by C. Kay Larson.
