Tuesday, April 19, 2016

John W. Garrett to Mayor George W. Brown, April 21, 1861

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, President's Office, BALTIMORE, April 21st, 1861

Hon. GEO. W. BROWN, Mayor of Baltimore

THREE thousand (3000) Northern troops are reported to be at Cockeysville. Intense excitement prevails. Churches have been dismissed and the people are arming in mass. To prevent terrific bloodshed the results of your interview and arrangements with President Lincoln are awaited.

JOHN W. GARRETT

SOURCE: Jessie Ames Marshall, Editor, Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1860 – June 1862, p. 20

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