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- GLC#
- GLC00451.06-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- May 30, 1861
- Author/Creator
- Johannes, J.G., fl. 1861-1864
- Title
- to Thomas Holliday Hicks
- Place Written
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 12.6 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Based on the request of Maryland Governor Hicks, Colonel John G. Johannes recalls events of the Baltimore Riot. States that 19 April 19, 1861, after spotting a signal light from the Armory of the Maryland Guard, he consulted his Commander, who had been dispatched to the office of George Proctor Kane, Marshal of Police. Claims that General Charles Calvert Egerton ordered Johannes and thirty men to report to Kane immediately. Recalls that bridges into the city were burned "entirely by the police force under the immediate eye of the marshall."
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