1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper Baltimore Pratt Street Riot with Front Page Maps of Washington, DC and Chesapeake Bay
New York: The World, 1861. 1st Edition. Folio. Very Good. Item #19456
A beautiful 1861 illustrated CIVIL WAR newspaper with front and inside--page reports of the Pratt Street Riot in Baltimore, the first blood shed of the Civil War.
Also on the front page are two maps, one of Washington, DC and Georgetown as preparations are frantically under way preparing for its defense; and the other of Chesapeake Bay at its mouth with a vignette detailing the streets of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Stacked headlines boldly announce news across the land as North and South hastily prepare for war, with detailed coverage inside of the Baltimore Riot and news of additional troops being sent to Maryland to quell the uprising.
This issue of The World (NY), and anti-Lincoln Copperhead newspaper, is dated April 22, 1861 with fantastic CIVIL WAR and Baltimore, Maryland history!
"The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, (beginning at the President Street Station and President Street and continuing ending on Howard Street at the Camden Street Station) in Baltimore, Maryland, between antiwar "Copperheads" Democrats (the largest party in Maryland), as well as Southern / Confederate sympathizers, and members of the primarily Massachusetts and some Pennsylvania state militia regiments en route to the national capital at Washington called up for Federal service. It produced the first deaths by hostile action in the American Civil War and is nicknamed the "First Bloodshed of the Civil War"
This historic piece is complete in 8 pages, and is chock full of early Civil War news.
Perfect for framing and display! Disbound.
#2I-056.
Price: $125.00