"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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Railroad train at Relay, Maryland
Subject:
Relay, Trains, Transportation, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Photographs, Portrait group 
Item ID:
PP262.06
Creator:
Unidentified photographer
Description:
Railroad train at Relay, Maryland. Shows people posed at station. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Salted paper print. Artists' Excursion Over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Photograph Collection, ca. 1857-1859. Note: Formerly designated as Z24-100-VF.
Date of Original:
ca. 1857-1859
Collection:
Artists' Excursion Over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Photograph Collection, Special Collections Department
Type/Size:
Print, 8 x 10 inch (20.32 x 25.4 cm.)
Restrictions:
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Rights:
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. For reproduction and permission information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org 
