 The disorder inspired James Ryder Randall, a Marylander living in Louisiana, to write a poem which would be put to music and, in 1939, become the state song, "Maryland, My Maryland" (it remains the official state song to this day).The song's lyrics urged Marylanders to "spurn the Northern scum" and "burst the tyrant's chain" — in other words, to secede from the Union.Confederate States Army bands would later play the song after they crossed into Maryland territory during the Maryland Campaign in 1862.