Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of the War
Baltimore: N. Murray, Johns Hopkins University, 1887. First printing. Frontispiece map. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 176, [10 ads] pages. Minor extremity rubs, some foxing to frontispiece tissue guard, with some offsetting, a prior owner name pencilled on preliminary blank leaf, Green cloth over boards with dark brown endpapers. Very good overall, with gilt-stamped titles on spine and upper board remaining bright.
Baltimore's mayor at the time relates the events in the city during April, 1861. He covers much more than the violent clash between the 6th Massachusetts Infantry and a mob in Pratt Street, with his main concern being the subsequent Federal occupation of Baltimore and the suspension of Habeas Corpus.
The frontispiece map shows the railroad route through Baltimore in 1861. Appendices on such topics as the plot to assassinate Lincoln in Baltimore (discounted by Brown) and Chief Justice Taney's opinions in the Dred Scott and Merryman cases. Brown provides considerable documentation.
Ref.: NEVINS II, p. 143; RHODES p. 43.
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