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laws, were in full force, excepting so far as the latter affected the
Commissioners and the
Chief of Police; and he authorized
Kenly, in the event of a refusal of any of the police force to perform their duty, to select, in conjunction with such of the public authorities as would aid him, “good men and true,” to fill their places.
Kenly worked with energy.
He chose to select new men for a police force.
Before midnight, he had enrolled, organized, and armed such a force, two hundred and fifty strong, composed of Union citizens whom he could trust, and had taken possession of the Headquarters of the late
Marshal and Police Commissioners, in the Old City Hall, on Holliday Street. In that building he found ample evidence of the guiltiness of the late occupants.
Concealed beneath the floors, in several rooms,
were found a large number of arms, consisting of muskets, rifles, shot-guns, carbines, pistols, swords, and dirk knives, with ample ammunition of various kinds; also, in the covered yard or wood-room in the rear, in a position to command Watch-house
Alley, leading to Saratoga Street, were two 6-pound and two 4-pound iron cannon, with suitable cartridges and balls.
In that building was also found the cannon-ball sent from
Charleston to
Marshal Kane, delineated on page 322. These discoveries, and others of like character in other parts of the city, together with the rebellious conduct of the Board of Police, who continued their sittings daily, refused to acknowledge the new policemen, and held the old force subject to their orders, seemed to warrant the
Government in ordering their arrest.
They were accordingly taken into custody, and were confined in
Fort Warren, in
Boston Harbor, as prisoners of State.
These vigorous measures secured the ascendency of the Unionists in
Maryland, which they never afterward
lost.
It was thenceforward entitled to the honor of being a loyal State, and
Baltimore a loyal city.
The secessionists were silenced; and, at the suggestion of many
Unionists of
Baltimore, ,July 10,
George R. Dodge, a citizen and a civilian, was appointed
marshal of police in place of
Colonel Kenly, who, with his regiment, soon afterward
