Produced by David Edwards, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: MAP SHOWING ROUTE OF RAIL ROAD THROUGH BALTIMORE FROM PRESIDENT ST. STATION TO CAMDEN ST. STATION.] BALTIMORE AND THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1861 A Study of the War By GEORGE WILLIAM BROWN _Chief Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore, and Mayor of the City in 1861_ BALTIMORE N. MURRAY, PUBLICATION AGENT, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 1887 COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY N. MURRAY. ISAAC FRIEDENWALD, PRINTER, BALTIMORE. CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER I. 1. INTRODUCTION, 9 2. THE FIRST BLOOD SHED IN THE WAR, 10 3. THE SUPPOSED PLOT TO ASSASSINATE THE INCOMING PRESIDENT, 11 4. THE MIDNIGHT RIDE TO WASHINGTON, 17 CHAPTER II. 1. THE COMPROMISES OF THE CONSTITUTION IN REGARD TO SLAVERY, 20 2. A DIVIDED HOUSE, 23 3. THE BROKEN COMPACT, 25 4. THE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION, 27 CHAPTER III. 1. MARYLAND'S DESIRE FOR PEACE, 30 2. EVENTS WHICH FOLLOWED THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, 31 3. HIS PROCLAMATION CALLING FOR TROOPS, 32 4. THE CITY AUTHORITIES AND POLICE OF BALTIMORE, 34 5. INCREASING EXCITEMENT IN BALTIMORE, 39 CHAPTER IV. 1. THE SIXTH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT IN BALTIMORE, 42 2. THE FIGHT, 47 3. THE DEPARTURE FOR WASHINGTON, 52 4. CORRESPONDENCE IN REGARD TO THE KILLED AND WOUNDED, 54 5. PUBLIC MEETING, 56 6. TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDENT, 57 7. NO REPLY, 58 8. BURNING OF BRIDGES, 59 CHAPTER V. 1. APRIL 20th--INCREASING EXCITEMENT, 60 2. APPROPRIATION OF $500,000 FOR DEFENSE OF THE CITY, 60 3. CORRESPONDENCE WITH PRESIDENT AND GOVERNOR, 61 4. MEN ENROLLED, 63 5. APPREHENDED ATTACK ON FORT McHENRY, 66 6. MARSHAL KANE, 69 7. INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT, CABINET, AND GENERAL SCOTT, 71