"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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Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore.
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Subject:
Prints, American Civil War, 1861-1865; Lithographs, Hambleton Print Collection, Baltimore (Md.), Riots. 
Item ID:
H254
Creator:
Virtue & Co. (publishers)
Description:
Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore. Published by Virtue & Co. Publishers, N.Y. F.O.C. (Felix Octavius Carr) Darley and F.F. Walker.
Date of Original:
1861
Collection:
Hambleton Print Collection, 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 
