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Thomas W. Hall (search for this): chapter 1.29
losed in respect to his memory and in testimony of his worth. The Sun the next day in an editorial denounced the killing of Mr. Davis as a wanton and deliberate murder. The story of the event, as told at the coroner's inquest by the late Major Thomas W. Hall, who had his hand on Mr. Davis' shoulder when he fell, is as follows: Mr. Hall said: I was on Pratt street, attending to some business, about 11:30 o'clock A. M., when I saw the first car containing troops from President Street Station Mr. Hall said: I was on Pratt street, attending to some business, about 11:30 o'clock A. M., when I saw the first car containing troops from President Street Station pass through. Hearing that the troops were the Seventh Regiment, from New York, and wishing to verify that fact by personal observation, I started for the Camden Street Station to see the soldiers change cars. On the way I was overtaken by Mr. Davis, who joined me, and with him passed through the station on to the track beyond. Being told by a reporter that a crowd of people had gone up the road to destroy the track, Mr. Davis and I determined to walk out a short distance in advance of the tr
Henry L. Dix (search for this): chapter 1.29
cted to arrest, and military rule succeeded in the city government. Gentlemen whose only offense was that they were members of the General Assembly, were hunted down like criminals, and some of them sent to a Massachusetts prison. To secure the arrest of a man no evidence was necessary. Even children and nurse girls on the street were unsafe. If a little girl happened to wear a white apron with a red binding, it was considered a display of Confederate colors and an act of disloyalty. General Dix, who took command July 24, said it required 10,000 men to keep Baltimore in subjection, and he put the city under the heavy guns of three fortifications. All over the State men were arrested upon the information of spies, and subjected to hardships and indignities. Judge Carmichael while sitting in his court at Easton, was assaulted by soldiers and a provost marshal, with his deputies, and dragged bleeding from the bench. Christian Emmerich. Christian Emmerich, 1431 West Lombard s
Jeff (search for this): chapter 1.29
boring under intense excitement, met the troops at Bolton Station and followed them to Mount Clare. All the way there was a riotous demonstration. Marshal Kane was there with 120 policemen, and while he succeeded in preventing any serious breaches of the peace, he could not stop the mouths of the people, who hissed, jerred and ridiculed the volunteers. The march through the city was rapid, and the troops were protected on either flank by files of policemen. The mob sang Dixie, cheered for Jeff. Davis and the Confederacy, and while the troops were getting into the cars at Mount Clare, there was pandemonium, and two bricks were hurled at them. But the train pulled out at 4 o'clock without any really serious trouble. Opposing sentiment. In the meantime the population of Baltimore was in a very feverish condition. The Southern rights men raised a large Confederate flag at the intersection of Greenmount avenue and Chase street and fired a salute of 100 guns in its honor. But t
Robert B. Pegram (search for this): chapter 1.29
orities of Baltimore. Nothing could exceed the courage and skill with which Marshal Kane met the emergency with the small force under his command. When the troops reached Camden Station 130 were missing. Robert W. Davis killed. The killing of Robert W. Davis, who was shot by the soldiers from the car windows, was an atrocious act, and tended more than any one incident to intensify the feeling of bitterness against the Northern troops. Mr. Davis was a member of the wholesale firm of Pegram, Paynter & Davis, of Baltimore street. He was an Irishman by birth and had married in Virginia. One of his brothers was an officer in the British Army. He was a gentleman of high character and great popularity. Upon the announcement of his death all the wholesale dry goods stores of the city closed in respect to his memory and in testimony of his worth. The Sun the next day in an editorial denounced the killing of Mr. Davis as a wanton and deliberate murder. The story of the event, as t
Street (search for this): chapter 1.29
for Washington were hauled by horses, one car at a time, from President Street Station up to Pratt, along Pratt to Howard street, and thence ing the soldiers consisted of thirty-five cars. It arrived at President Street Station about 11 o'clock on the morning of Friday, 19th of Apr of defiance. March to Camden Station. There were now at President Street Station four companies of the Massachusetts Regiment, C, D, I came of the collision on the march. The Mayor hurried toward President Street Station, and when he reached Pratt street bridge he met the bao'clock A. M., when I saw the first car containing troops from President Street Station pass through. Hearing that the troops were the Seventntime the unarmed Pennsylvania recruits which had been left at President Street Station, were in a deplorable dilemma. They were surrounded bice stations and begged for protection. Those who remained in President Street Station were later on put on cars and hauled out of town towar
Follonsbee (search for this): chapter 1.29
obstruction removed. His authority was not resisted. But in the meantime the seventh car having come up to the obstruction, the driver hitched the horses to the other end and returned rapidly to President street, the cars following of course reversing and also returning amid a shower of stones and other missles and hoots and yells of defiance. March to Camden Station. There were now at President Street Station four companies of the Massachusetts Regiment, C, D, I and L, under Captains Follonsbee, Hart, Pickering and Dike. They were cut off from their colonel and the rest of the command. In these four companies were 220 men, who were confronted by a dense and angry crowd, cheering for Jeff. Davis and the Confederacy, and denouncing Lincoln and the North. The unarmed Pennsylvanians and the regimental band remained in the railroad station, but the four Massachusetts companies formed on President street and began their famous march to Camden Station. As they marched up Presid
T. Parkin Scott (search for this): chapter 1.29
hington. They telegraphed back that they had seen the President, members of the Cabinet and General Scott, and that orders would be sent to stop the passage of men through the city. Fort McHenry wat 7:30 and arrived in Washington at 10. At the interview with the President the Cabinet and General Scott, were present. The President admitted the excited state of feeling in Baltimore and his desh, which gave the President great surprise. The President summoned the Secretary of War and General Scott, and urged the recall of the troops, saving he had no idea they would be there. Lest there that the troops should, if it were practicable, be sent back at once to York or Harrisburg. General Scott adopted the President's view, and an order was prepared by the Lieutenant-General to that efsince. It was composed of John C. Brune, Ross Winans, Henry M. Warfield, J. Hanson Thomas, T. Parkin Scott, H. M. Morfit, S. Teackle Wallis, Charles H. Pitts, William G. Harrison, and Lawrence Sangs
Isaac R. Trimble (search for this): chapter 1.29
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 riflemen from Frederick, under command of Captain Bradley T. Johnson. Between 300 and 400 colored men offered their servimissed and a large part of the male population, including boys and old men, thronged to the headquarters. The military proper were under the command of Major-General George H. Steuart, and the ununiformed volunteers were under command of Colonel I. R. Trimble. It was a formidable force. Full preparations were made for a conflict and ammunition for artillery and rifles was distributed. In the afternoon a dispatch came from Mayor Brown, at Washington, saying that the President would order the
Lombard (search for this): chapter 1.29
el to the top of Federal Hill to fire a salute of fifteen guns in honor of the secession of Virginia. After a few shots had been fired a party of workingmen from the neighboring shops charged upon them and tumbled the gun into the river. At the corner of Baltimore and North streets several young men appeared wearing badges representing the Confederate flag. They were quickly surrounded by a crowd, who demanded that they should remove them. The crowd followed the young men down South and Lombard streets. Marshal Kane came to their protection. They appealed to him to know whether they had a right to wear those badges. The Marshal replied that they had a perfect right to do so as long as they were orderly. The crowd then left them and went up Baltimore street cheering for the Stars and Stripes. These incidents serve to indicate the condition of the public mind upon the eve of April 19. The fever heat had not been reached suddenly. The news of the attack on Fort Sumter and i
John William Jones (search for this): chapter 1.29
rs, drawn rapidly by horses, reached Camden Station, the first carload being received with jeers and hisses, but the last car was thrown from the track and delayed, the windows broken with paving stones, which had also struck some of the men. Colonel Jones was in one of the cars which got through. After the stones had been thrown at the sixth car the riot began in earnest, and among those who opposed the troops were some of the substantial men of the city. As carload after carload passed by t removed the obstructions as fast as they were placed. The conduct of Mayor Brown in risking his life to defend the Northern troops was heroic, and his heroism was recognized in statements made by the officers of the Massachusetts regiment. Colonel Jones, in a letter to Marshal Kane, thanked him for the Christian conduct of the authorities of Baltimore. Nothing could exceed the courage and skill with which Marshal Kane met the emergency with the small force under his command. When the troop
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