{"id":3757,"date":"2011-04-20T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:10:58","slug":"aftermath-baltimore-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2011\/04\/20\/aftermath-baltimore-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath of the Baltimore Riot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> One hundred fifty years ago today<\/a> Mayor George W. Brown<\/a> wrote<\/a> Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew<\/a> and described the riot<\/a> that took place the previous day in Baltimore<\/a>, Maryland. The Sixth Massachusetts Regiment had left Philadelphia in the morning of April 19, 1861, but while crossing the between the President Street and the Camden railroad depots in Baltimore they were attacked in the streets by southern sympathizing rioters. The Sixth Massachusetts reached their Washington-bound train but not before they had suffered three killed and others wounded and opened fire in response, killing thirteen rioters. \u201cOur people viewed the passage of armed troops to another State through the streets as an invasion of our soil, and could not be restrained,\u201d as Mayor Brown explained<\/a>. As \u201call communication between this city and\u2026Boston by steamers [had] ceased,\u201d Brown noted that \u201cthe bodies of the Massachusetts soldiers\u201d had to remain in Baltimore and that they were \u201cplaced with proper funeral ceremonies in the mausoleum of Greenmount Cemetery.\u201d Governor Andrew later replied<\/a> that he was \u201coverwhelmed with surprise that a peaceful march of American citizens over the highway to the defence of our common capital should be deemed aggressive to Baltimoreans.\u201d You can read more about the Baltimore riot in David Detzer\u2019s Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run<\/a><\/em> (2006).<\/p>\n

\nListen to Mayor George Brown’s letter to Governor John Andrew:<\/strong>
\n\nhttp:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2011\/04\/1861_04_20_Brown_to_Andrews.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n

\nListen to Governor John Andrew’s reply to Mayor George Brown:<\/strong>
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One hundred fifty years ago today Mayor George W. Brown wrote Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew and described the riot that took place the previous day in Baltimore, Maryland. The Sixth Massachusetts Regiment had left Philadelphia in the morning of April 19, 1861, but while crossing the between the President Street and the Camden railroad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,172],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-letters-diaries","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5625,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}