Baltimore and the Attack on the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, April 19, 1861
Baltimore, Md: Maryland Historical Society, 1961. 1st Edition. 8vo. Very Good. Item #18427
The first separate publication of Clark's history of the first blood spilled of the Civil War, generally known as the Pratt Street Riot, and originally published in the Maryland Historical Magazine in March, 1961.
Typographical wraps. 71pp. Staple binding. Mild edge wear, sporadic underlining and marginalia.
"The Baltimore riot of 1861 was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland. It occurred between antiwar "Copperhead" Democrats (the largest party in Maryland) and other Confederate sympathizers on one side, and on the other, members of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania state militia regiments en route to the national capital at Washington who had been called up for federal service. The fighting began at the President Street Station, spreading throughout President Street and subsequently to Howard Street, where it ended at the Camden Street Station. The riot produced the first deaths of Union volunteers by hostile action, although caused by civilians, in the American Civil War. Civilians among the attackers also were killed." - wiki.
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