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Eric | June 28, 2011
Friday, June 28, 1861 The evening brought a spring coolness to the Baltimore wharfs as the 1,200 ton, side-wheel steamer St. Nicholas received her passengers. She regularly made runs from Baltimore to Georgetown, Washington DC by chugging down the Chesapeake Bay, rounding Point Lookout and then paddling up the Potomac to the capital. This evening, [...]
Eric | May 15, 2011
Wednesday, May 15, 1861 General Benjamin Butler, after having captured Baltimore without orders to do so, occupied Federal Hill without telling his superiors and pointed cannons at the business district, was tired. He had not slept for over 40 hours and turned in early the previous evening.1 Throughout the night, he was awoken by the [...]
Eric | May 14, 2011
Tuesday, May 14, 1861 General Benjamin Butler had occupied Baltimore without order to do so, and without telling Washington he was doing it. During the night, Secessionists had moved arms from the city, hiding them in the suburbs. On the morning of this date, “desiring for it to be understood by the inhabitants of Baltimore” [...]
Eric | May 13, 2011
Monday, May 13, 1861 Union General Benjamin Butler wasn’t ordered to march into Baltimore and occupy Federal Hill. However, he also wasn’t explicitly ordered not to. When he and his men occupied Relay Station just south of the city, he became more than a little wary of the Secessionist happenings within its limits. After sending [...]
Eric | May 5, 2011
Sunday, May 5, 1861 Federal troops by the thousands were gathering in Washington. More and more were arriving every day. Across the Potomac River from the capital sat Alexandria, Virginia, held by 650 or so Virginia militiamen (including two Irish companies) in various states of accoutrement and weaponry. Some of their rifles dated back to [...]
Eric | May 2, 2011
Thursday, May 2, 1861 Elmer Ellsworth studied law under Abraham Lincoln in the years before the election. When Lincoln came to Washington, Ellsworth escorted him as a guard. Though he was only 24, he had already made a name for himself three years earlier as the Colonel of the United States Zouave Cadets, a militia [...]
Eric | May 1, 2011
Wednesday, May 1, 1861 Things were getting better in Baltimore. Maryland had, so far, decided to remain in the Union and, somehow, General Benjamin Butler, commander of the Department of Annapolis, had figured out how to reinforce Fort McHenry, a star-shaped fort in Baltimore Harbor, originally built for the War of 1812. If Maryland seceded, [...]
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