Chapter I: Front Matter

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

8. GENERAL BUTLER, WITH THE EIGHTH MASSACHUSETTS, PROCEEDS
TO ANNAPOLIS AND WASHINGTON, 76

9. BALTIMORE IN A STATE OF ARMED NEUTRALITY, 77

CHAPTER VI.

1. SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 79

2. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF POLICE, 80

3. SUPPRESSION OF THE FLAGS, 82

4. ON THE 5th OF MAY GENERAL BUTLER TAKES POSITION SIX MILES
FROM BALTIMORE, 83

5. ON THE 13th OF MAY HE ENTERS BALTIMORE AND FORTIFIES FEDERAL
HILL, 84

6. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL TAKE NO STEPS TOWARD SECESSION, 85

7. MANY YOUNG MEN JOIN THE ARMY OF THE CONFEDERACY, 85

CHAPTER VII.

1. CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY AND THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, 87

2. A UNION CONVENTION, 92

3. CONSEQUENCE OF THE SUSPENSION OF THE WRIT, 93

4. INCIDENTS OF THE WAR, 95

5. THE WOMEN IN THE WAR, 95

CHAPTER VIII.

1. GENERAL BANKS IN COMMAND, 97

2. MARSHAL KANE ARRESTED, 97

3. POLICE COMMISSIONERS SUPERSEDED, 97

4. RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 98

5. POLICE COMMISSIONERS ARRESTED, 98

6. RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 100

7. GENERAL DIX IN COMMAND, 100

8. ARREST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THE MAYOR,
AND OTHERS, 102

9. RELEASE OF PRISONERS, 108

10. COLONEL DIMICK, 111

CHAPTER IX.--A PERSONAL CHAPTER. 113

APPENDIX I.

ACCOUNT OF THE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE ABRAHAM
LINCOLN ON HIS JOURNEY TO BALTIMORE, FROM THE "LIFE OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN," BY WARD H. LAMON, pp. 511-526, 120

APPENDIX II.

EXTRACT FROM THE OPINION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES, DELIVERED BY CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY, IN THE CASE OF
DRED SCOTT VS. SANFORD (19 HOW. 407), 138

APPENDIX III.

THE HABEAS CORPUS CASE.--OPINION OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE
UNITED STATES (_Ex Parte_ JOHN MERRYMAN), 139

APPENDIX IV.

MESSAGE OF THE 12th OF JULY, 1861, TO THE FIRST AND SECOND
BRANCHES OF THE CITY COUNCIL, REFERRING TO THE EVENTS OF
THE 19th OF APRIL AND THOSE WHICH FOLLOWED.--THE FIRST
PARAGRAPH AND THE CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHS OF THIS DOCUMENT, 157

APPENDIX V.

AS A PART OF THE HISTORY OF THE TIMES, REPRODUCTION FROM THE
BALTIMORE "AMERICAN" OF DECEMBER 5, 1860, OF THE RECEPTION
OF THE PUTNAM PHALANX, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, IN
THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, 160

APPENDIX VI.

VISIT OF A PORTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SIXTH MASSACHUSETTS
REGIMENT TO BALTIMORE ON THE 19th OF APRIL, 1880, AND AN
ACCOUNT OF ITS RECEPTION, FROM THE BALTIMORE "SUN" AND
THE BALTIMORE "AMERICAN," 167

INDEX, 171

BALTIMORE AND THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1861.

_A STUDY OF THE WAR._

CHAPTER I.