George William Brown
George William Brown was the mayor of Baltimore during one of the most dramatic and violent incidents in the city's history. On April 19th, 1861, the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and Pennsylvania troops - about 1700 soldiers answering President Lincoln's call to defend the federal capital - arrived at Baltimore's President Street station east of the harbour on their way to Washington DC. As they made their way across Pratt Street to board the southbound train at Camden Yards, the soldiers were attacked by a mob of nearly 5000. When the fighting was over, 21 soldiers and citizens were dead and more than 100 were injured - the first blood spilled in the Civil War.
Military History,Civil War
Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of the War