"On the evening of May 13, 1861, General Benjamin Butler and 1,000 Union soldiers arrived at Baltimore's Camden Street Station by train. Under the cover of a thunderstorm, they fortified Federal Hill to ensure the city of Baltimore remained under Union control, after the Pratt Street Riot less than a month earlier."
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Biddle Street, 200 block west, ca. 1920
Subject:
Photographs, Street scene, Street scene--Urban Landscape, Baltimore (Md.), Rowhouses 
Item ID:
[SVF]
Creator:
Unknown
Description:
Biddle Street, 200 block west, ca. 1920. Subject Vertical File, Baltimore City, Streets. Previously known as Z24.1341.
Date of Original:
ca. 1920
Collection:
Subject Vertical File, Special Collections Department
Type/Size:
Image
Restrictions:
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: special_collections@mdhs.org
Rights:
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. For reproduction and permission information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org 
