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This image, provided by the Library of Congress, shows the cover of a collection of Confederate songs published in 1861, which includes "Maryland, My Maryland." State lawmakers want to retire it as Maryland's official state song but not erase it.

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Maryland Gets Closer To Retiring State Song That Calls Northerners 'Scum'

7:15pm March 16, 2018

by Amy Held

"Maryland, My Maryland," written early in the Civil War, praises the Confederacy. State senators now have voted to reclassify the song as "historical."