Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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I love situations where everyone is in the wrong ❤︎⁠❤︎⁠

this took me like 10 hours please let it do well despite the fact that no one is interested in this except for me 🙏🙏

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HISTORICAL INFORMATION:

Maryland Election Results, 1860 Presidential Election:
The Daily Exchange, “The Daily Exchange (Baltimore, Md.), November 7, 1860”
loc.gov/resource/sn83009573/1860-11-07/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.599,0.076,0.271,0.176,0

Division in Maryland:
Charles B. Clark, "Politics in Maryland During the Civil War" p. 79-85
msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5300/sc5339/000125/000000/000001/restricted/radoff.pdf

0:29 - 0:43
Federal Government requesting troops & troops marching from Boston to Norfolk:
The Daily Exchange, “The Daily Exchange (Baltimore, Md.), April 19, 1861”
loc.gov/resource/sn83009573/1861-04-19/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.108,0.253,0.24,0.156,0

0:44 - 0:51
The Baltimore Riot of 1861/The Pratt Street Riot:
Salem Maritime National Historical Park, “Baltimore Riot”
nps.gov/articles/000/baltimore-riot.htm#:~:text=Four%20members%20of%20the%20Massachusetts,of%20the%20American%20Civil%20War.
The Daily Exchange, “The Daily Exchange (Baltimore, Md.), April 20, 1861
loc.gov/resource/sn83009573/1861-04-20/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.39,0.105,0.406,0.264,0

0:52 - 0:58
The 1861 General Assembly:
Maryland State Archives, “The General Assembly Moves to Frederick, 1861” (1998)
msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s1259/121/7590/html/0000.html

0:59 - 1:02
President Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland:
James R. Arnold; Roberta Wiener, “Understanding U.S. Military Conflicts Through Primary Sources: Volume 2” (2016) p. 71
research-ebsco-com.pstcc.idm.oclc.org/c/aewxef/search/details/ld2jloxfpb?request-context=plink&db=e000xna

1:06 - 1:21
Arrest of pro-Confederate/pro-secession Maryland citizens:
Mark E. Neely, Jr., “The Lincoln Administration and Arbitrary Arrests: A Reconsideration: Volume 5, Issue 1” (1983)
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0005.103/--lincoln-administration-and-arbitrary-arrests?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Federal Troops in Baltimore and Annapolis:
The Columbia Encyclopedia, “Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818–93, American politician and Union general in the Civil War”
access.infobase.com/article/795800-butler-benjamin-franklin-1818-93-american-politician-and-union-general?rak=1
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, “The Pratt Street Riot”
nps.gov/fomc/learn/historyculture/the-pratt-street-riot.htm

if you have any questions or would like further sources for anything, please let me know!
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Personifications/Characters in video:
(In order of appearance)
America (he/him)
DC (also represents the Federal Government) (she/her)
0:22, left to right:
Connecticut (he/him), Massachusetts (she/they), New York (she/her)
Ms. America, later the Confederate States of America (she/her)
1:04, left to right:
Virginia (she/her), South Carolina (she/her), North Carolina (she/her)
Florida (he/him)
everyone else is a random design I made because I needed people lol

Song: "Get in the Water" from EPIC: The Musical
youtube.com/watch?v=8njnTRKGdYw