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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
ge of men through the city. Fort McHenry was at this time under command of Captain John C. Robinson, of the United States army. It was in a defenseless condition, and it was rumored that an attack would be made upon it by a mob on Saturday night. It was feared that if this was done the guns of the fort might be turned on the city, and naturally such an idea caused much disquiet. Police Commissioner John W. Davis visited the commandant and offered a guard of 200 men to be stationed on Whetstone Point to arrest any disorderly persons who might approach. Captain Robinson distrusted such a guard, and said they must not approach nearer the fort than the Catholic chapel or he would fire on them. Mr. Davis talked with most of the officers and all of them were cordial and courteous except a young subaltern, who threatened, in case of attack, to direct the fire of a cannon at Washington's Monument. To this threat Mr. Davis replied: If you do that, and if a woman or child is killed, the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.29 (search)
ge of men through the city. Fort McHenry was at this time under command of Captain John C. Robinson, of the United States army. It was in a defenseless condition, and it was rumored that an attack would be made upon it by a mob on Saturday night. It was feared that if this was done the guns of the fort might be turned on the city, and naturally such an idea caused much disquiet. Police Commissioner John W. Davis visited the commandant and offered a guard of 200 men to be stationed on Whetstone Point to arrest any disorderly persons who might approach. Captain Robinson distrusted such a guard, and said they must not approach nearer the fort than the Catholic chapel or he would fire on them. Mr. Davis talked with most of the officers and all of them were cordial and courteous except a young subaltern, who threatened, in case of attack, to direct the fire of a cannon at Washington's Monument. To this threat Mr. Davis replied: If you do that, and if a woman or child is killed, the
The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward, (search)
ient to call a sovereign Convention at this time, or to take measures for the immediate arming and organization of the militia, and propose an adjournment of the Legislature to a day to be named hereafter. The report was adopted — ayes 49, noes 11--and the resolutions were made the order of the day for this morning. The Federal troops passed through Baltimore yesterday. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a fleet was observed from the wharves of the city, making its way up the river. The fleet consisted of the Harriet Lane, having in convoy the steamer Maryland, the Philadelphia ice-boat, and three propellers, with about 2,700 men on board.--The vessels approached the wharf at Whetstone Point, and landed the troops, while the Harriet Lane stood with her port holes open, to protect the landing. As soon as the force debarked, they started in special trains for Washington. All quiet in Alexandria and Washington, and nothing unusual has occurred at Arlington Heights.