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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
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April 19th, 1861.
[from the Baltimore, Md., sun, July 24, 25, 1901.]
A record of the events in Baltimore, Md., on that day.
Conflict of the Sixth Massachusetts regiment with citizens.
Of the 215,000 people who resided in Baltimore on April 19, 1861, there are perhaps not 50,000 remaining here to this day. Of the thousands who took part in the attack upon the Massachusetts troops as they passed through the city on that eventful day, or who witnessed the attack, but few remain.
To the great mass of our people the riot of April 19 is simply an event of history.
Men who were born here since it occurred have arrived at middle age, and those who were in the melee can now look back upon that time of intense excitement as calmly and dispassionately as upon the assault upon the British troops at Lexington, on April 19, 1775.
Much has been said and written about the strange coincidence in the date of the first bloodshed in the two most momentous conflicts of modern times.
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