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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
en wore a badge which displayed the Confederate colors. It was rumored that the Turner Rifles, a German company, had offered their services to the President, and their armory on West Pratt street was looted. There was a great rush for arms, and a number of muskets belonging to the State were seized. The works of the Messrs. Winans were engaged in making pikes, in casting balls for muskets and cannon and the steam gun which Mr. Winans had invented. A centrifugal steam gun invented by Mr. Dickinson was purchased by the city to be used in the public defense. A party of young men took some field pieces from a military school at Catonsville and brought them to town, but the principal of the school, a clergyman and a strong Union man, had spiked them. The militia were called out, and 15,000 citizens were enrolled and put under the command of Colonel Isaac R. Trimble. All day long companies of the State militia were arriving from the counties. The first to come was a company of r
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.29 (search)
en wore a badge which displayed the Confederate colors. It was rumored that the Turner Rifles, a German company, had offered their services to the President, and their armory on West Pratt street was looted. There was a great rush for arms, and a number of muskets belonging to the State were seized. The works of the Messrs. Winans were engaged in making pikes, in casting balls for muskets and cannon and the steam gun which Mr. Winans had invented. A centrifugal steam gun invented by Mr. Dickinson was purchased by the city to be used in the public defense. A party of young men took some field pieces from a military school at Catonsville and brought them to town, but the principal of the school, a clergyman and a strong Union man, had spiked them. The militia were called out, and 15,000 citizens were enrolled and put under the command of Colonel Isaac R. Trimble. All day long companies of the State militia were arriving from the counties. The first to come was a company of r