Shriver, Edward G., fl. 1861 to Thomas Holliday Hicks

GLC00451.03

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GLC#
GLC00451.03-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
May 1861
Author/Creator
Shriver, Edward G., fl. 1861
Title
to Thomas Holliday Hicks
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 p. : envelope Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 19 cm
Language
English
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Co-signed by Grayson Eichelberger, Ulysses Hobbs, and William Maulsby, soldiers present for the April 19, 1861 Baltimore Riot. Shriver et al. claim that General Bradley Tyler Johnson, with Baltimore Marshal of Police George Proctor Kane and others, intended to resist the passage of Northern troops through Baltimore by means of burning the bridges leading into the city.

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