(CIVIL WAR MARYLAND) The Massacre at Baltimore

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(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) The Massacre at Baltimore. Hand-colored lithograph, 10 x 14 inches; dampstaining in upper left corner, toning, minor wear in top margin. Hartford, CT: C.B. & E.C. Kellogg, circa 1861

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Depicts the reception afforded in Baltimore to the 6th Massachusetts Infantry, among the "First Defenders" units heading to Washington after the fall of Fort Sumter. They were met by a mob of secessionist civilians hurling bricks, and barely escaped. Here a Black man is shown in the foreground among the angry insurrectionists, which seems unlikely. Nick Biddle, a Black man with a Pennsylvania militia company, is thought to have been the first man wounded that day.

None traced at auction or in OCLC, though copies are held by Connecticut Historical Society and the Maryland Center for History and Culture.