[Statement from an unknown witness regarding the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00451.05 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript Date: circa 1861 Pagination: 1 p. ; 13.1 x 20.1 cm. Order a Copy
Attests that police Marshal George Proctor Kane ordered men to protect the Union troops passing through the city. Claims that in the confusion, Union soldiers fired indiscriminately into the mob, which included Mayor George W. Brown. Recalls "laboring under violent excitement ... for who could look calmly on and see the 'Yankee Miscreants' shoot our people in the Streets."
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