The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Passage of troops via Baltimore.

‘ "There was some little excitement in the city yesterday, occasioned by the movement of detachments of police, under command of Marshal Kane, it being soon rumored that a large number of United States troops from the North were expected to arrive in the city, but no one seemed to know by what conveyance. A crowd of spectators followed the police in the morning to Smith's wharf, where a steam-tug was waiting for them, but on reaching there, about eleven o'clock, they ascertained that the expected steamer had not arrived. At two o'clock P. M. the police were again mustered, and proceeded in a tug-boat to Locust Point, where the steamer Maryland, the Ice Boat, and four Crom well propellers soon after landed about two thousand five hundred troops, including Sherman's famous battery, who proceeded in cars which were in waiting, direct to Washington. There was not the sligh test attempt to insult or attack the troops, and at one or two points through South Baltimore, they were cheered as the cars passed along. The arrangements of the police for the prevention of disorder, were quietly and effectively made, though beyond the keeping off the crowd they had no serious duties to perform.

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