Start your thrilling adventure as George P. Kane, Marshal of the Baltimore Police, from 1860-1861, during the crunch of the Baltimore Pratt Street Riots. What would you do as the Chief of Police in Baltimore during the Riots, especially when you receive word of Northern troop movements on [[16 April 1861]]? Come step into the shoes of George Kane as you attempt to lead a sentimentally segmented city through a crisis never seen before in the city that leads to the //first blood shed// of the American Civil War. <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-out;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Kane_harpers_weekly.jpg" width="287" height="545"> //Marshal of Baltimore Police, George Proctor Kane//, Harper's Weekly, //13 July 1861//<img class="irc_mi" style="margin-top: 91px;" src="http://www.nps.gov/fomc/learn/historyculture/images/Pratt-Street-Riot.jpg" width="556" height="212"> [[Affairs at Baltimore: Arrest of Marshal Kane---Start]]**16 April 1861** <img id="lightboxImage" alt="Bird's Eye View of Baltimore City" src="http://www.mdhs.org/sites/default/files/h17_birds_eye_view_1858_0.jpg" style="display: inline; width: 617px; height: 399px; z-index: 10500;"> //Bird's Eye View of Baltimore, E. Sachse & Co., 1858// A day before Virginia's secession you learn that troops, responding to President Lincoln's call for volunteers after Fort Sumter are to arrive in Baltimore--your city--//tomorrow//. In panic you message the Baltimore agent of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad (PW&B), William Crawford: //Dear Sir: Is it true as stated that an attempt will be made to pass the volunteers from New York intended to war upon the South over your road today? It is important that we have explicit understanding on that subject. Your friend, George P. Kane// What will you do next? [[As Chief of Police, you will fulfill your duty to protect your city and escort the soldiers through Baltimore.->Bolton Street]] [[Be it what it would. You treat yourself to a coffee and doughnut.->Be It What It Would]] **18 April 1861** Troops from Pennsylvnia arrive in Baltimore at the Bolton Steet Station, where you are awaiting their arrival. You have stationed your force to be on either side of the Pennsylvania men as they march to Camden Station. Fortunately, the Pennsylvania soldiers, for the most part, were dressed in civilian clothes; however the denizens of Baltimore still threw rocks at the soldiers. As you march along with the men you hear a calamity behind you--yelling from both sides ensues, the lines between the two forces almost became a rondure of bloody hell. You glance around as sweat rolls down your forehead and...there...what is that? You see a blur...a shape...it looks like...perhaps it is a body? You wipe your brow and look again...closer...there on the ground lay the first bloodshed of "the civil war such as that now waged between the Northern and Southern States." The first blood to run through the streets was that of [[Nicholas Biddle's|http://www.wfmz.com/features/History-s-Headlines/Nicholas-Biddle-First-Blood-of-The-Civil-War/326342]]. <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35189/35189-h/images/image39biddle.jpg" width="251" height="299"> <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-out;" src="http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_125867_18088_689875_43/http%3B/pubcontent.state.pa.us/publishedcontent/publish/cop_environment/phmc/communities/extranet/history/pahistory/people/biddle/biddlecarte.jpg" width="287" height="316"> //Nicholas "Nick" Biddle, "The Grave of Nick Biddle" and carte de visite// [[You realize that the pinch of the game is yet to come.->19 April 1861]] **18 April 1861** <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://www.newkirkmonument.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PWB-map-1850-LoC.jpeg" width="1120" height="299"> //Map of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad, 1850// Troops from Pennsylvnia arrive in Baltimore at the Bolton Steet Station. You had an inkling they were going to attempt to pass through the city; however, you never received a response to your inquiry. Perhaps Crawford at PW&B was far too immersed in work to respond; perhaps word of your Southern sympathies had run the gamut and no one wished to respond to your queries in fear of the negative accusations that they associate with you... A riot breaks out in the streets as the Pennsylvania soldiers attempt to make their way to Camden Station on to Washington, D.C. Since you lacked the knowledge and the concern for the soldiers, one man was stoned to death--[[Nicholas Biddle|http://www.wfmz.com/features/History-s-Headlines/Nicholas-Biddle-First-Blood-of-The-Civil-War/326342]] <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="https://mulattodiaries.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/nicholasbiddle2.jpg" width="221" height="299"> <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-out;" src="http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_125867_18088_689875_43/http%3B/pubcontent.state.pa.us/publishedcontent/publish/cop_environment/phmc/communities/extranet/history/pahistory/people/biddle/biddlecarte.jpg" width="287" height="316"> //Nicholas "Nick" Biddle, "The Grave of Nick Biddle and carte de visite.// You fear the backlash...//drastic measures must be taken to prevent the Northern soldiers from passing through your city//. [[As the railcars steam away from Camden Station you realize that the pinch of the game is yet to come.->19 April 1861]] <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/George_Brown_map.jpg" width="459" height="299"> //Union route through Baltimore, as later depicted by Mayor George Brown// "//As one of the soldiers fired, he was struck with a stone and knocked down, and as he attempted to arise another stone struck him in the face, when he crawled into a store and prostrating himself on the floor, clasped his hands and begged piteously for his life//." --//Baltimore Sun//, 20 April 1861 The message comes in at 8:20 A.M. Within 30 minutes the soldiers would arrive. You had not received any advance notice, prior to this message, about the movement of the troops. You await the cars, only to be informed, after repeated inquiries, that the tracks have been obstructed. You wait at Camden Station for the soldiers' arrival. <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Camden_Station_in_1865.jpg" width="314" height="299"> //Camden Station, ca. 1865// A riot breaks out on Pratt Street and you are promptly called to the scene, taking a detachment of 50 police officers with you. You open your ranks upon meeting up with the soldiers marching through and you and your men envelop the ranks--how noble of you! To put //your force at risk// from the missiles thrown by Baltimoreans. You did your duty, your "orders were faithfully executed; [your] men did their duty, and the Massachusetts troops were rescued." <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/may/battle-baltimore.jpg" width="446" height="299"> [[//First Blood-The Sixth Massachusetts Regiment Fighting Their Way Through Baltimore, April 19, 1861.//Harper's Weekly,//4 May 1861//|http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/may/news-of-war.htm//]] You learn quickly though of more arriving soldiers--what will you do? [[You attempt to protect these soldiers from an "infuriated populace."->Our whole city seemed filled with horror]] [[You decide it would be best to leave it alone, it will play itself out; in the meantime, it's been a while since you've had coffee and a doughnut.->Our whole city seemed filled with horror]] You write to Bradley T. Johnson, captain of the Frederick Guards: //**Marylanders, Arouse!**// //Thank you for your offer. Bring your men by the first train, and we will arrange with the railroads afterwards. Streets red with Maryland blood! Send expresses over the mountains and valleys of Maryland and Virginia for their riflemen to come without delay. Fresh hordes will be down upon us to-morrow (the 20th). We will fight them, and whip them , or die//. “**//GEO. P. KANE//**.” As night fell over the city the hubbub of the days events kept men and women out on the streetcorners "to discuss the terrible events of the day." On the other side of Monument Square, outside Barnum's Hotel, gathered a crowd as well-known secessionist and ex-governor, Enoch L. Lowe, "excited his audience by telling them that 'Frederick County would lend assistance to Baltimore to the extent of their power.'" <div id="post-2966" class="image post-2966 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-baltimore category-stereoviews category-william-m-chase tag-baltimore-architecture tag-baltimore-photography tag-baltimore-stereoviews tag-barnums-hotel tag-william-m-chase-2"> <div id="image"><img src="https://19thcenturybaltimore.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/chase_barnumshotel_sv.jpg?w=840" alt=""></div> //Stereoview of Barnum's Hotel, William Chase, ca.1862-1876// However, in the shadows of the city and indeed, even in the streets, roamed gangs "armed with knives, pistols and rifles....[one] ragtag group returned to the President Street Station, where they broke down a door and smashed in waiting room windows." The gang demanded from the railroad employees that all "such muskets and rifles" in the station should be turned over. <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/President_Street_Station_-_Baltimore_1856.jpg" width="475" height="299"> //President Street Station, ca. 1856// Not many slept well in the city that night--every squeak of a door, every skitter of a rat, every hiss of the gas lamp made one jump--nerves were on edge...and so was the city. What will you do next? [[Follow the agreed upon orders and go forth destroying any bridges in which the troops are likely to come.-> Burn the Bridges!]] [[You've seen enough conflict this past week, so why not get what ails ya? Go have a whiskey down at the tavern.->Baltimore Brew]] "//A general conversation then ensued, in which it was agreed to by all present that any attempt to pass troops through the city, in the then excited condition of the public mind, would lead to the most fearful consequences, and that any such passage must be prevented or delayed. The governor fully accorded in these views. The conversation resulted in the governor's distinctly and unequivocal consenting, in response to the direct question put to him by the mayor, that the bridges on the roads by which the troops were expected to come should be destroyed as the only means of averting the consequences referred to of their coming at that time.//" **//GEO. P. KANE,// Marshal.** Throughout the night you led the men, along with Isaac Ridgeway Trimble (a very successful railroad construction executive responsible for many of the bridges found throughout the state of Maryland). Any railroad line running from the north into the city was destroyed efficiently and with precision--lines from the Phialdeplhia Railroad, the Northern Central Railroad, and the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore (PW&B). You and Trimble also ordered the men to bloackade major roads and cut telegraph lines. [["//From every part of Maryland, men rushed to join their Baltimore brothers...Shouts of praise for the South were heard everywhere, and...for the first time, men were singing 'Dixie.' When dawn rose on Saturday morning, April 20, Baltimore was reeling.//"->More Soldiers, More Violence?]] <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://www.peachridgeglass.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/BaltimoreHarbor1860s.jpg" width="481" height="299"> //Baltimore Inner Harbor looking at Baltimore City, ca. 1864// You get drunk...like wasted...and pass out at the Inner Harbor. In and out of slumber you hear the loud calls of men...you smell smoke...through your groggy eyes you can see something yellow dancing... //Your senses awaken//. **FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!** The bridges...they are burning down all around the city! You vaguely recall in bits and pieces a conversation with the Mayor and Governor...the orders...what were the orders? You rest your hand upon your head when a gust of wind blows smoke into your face leaving you caughing...and then...AHA! The order was "that the bridges on the roads by which troops would likely come, should be destroyed, as the only means of impeding them and avoiding the threatened conflict." You look up and see fire...all around the city...it illuminates the night sky. As you gaze the horizon you see yet another bridge catch aflame. You determine to go forth and lead the men from here on out--you must protect the city. You join up with the men. They are led by Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, a successful railroad construction executive--he had the men destroying the bridges in the most proficient way. You excuse your tardiness and commence giving orders. <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/civil_war_series/16/images/fig59.jpg" width="211" height="299"> //Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, ca. 1860s.// [["//From every part of Maryland, men rushed to join their Baltimore brothers...Shouts of praise for the South were heard everywhere, and...for the first time, men were singing 'Dixie.' When dawn rose on Saturday morning, April 20, Baltimore was reeling.//"->More Soldiers, More Violence?]] **27 April 1861** <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Abraham_lincoln_inauguration_1861.jpg" width="298" height="299"> //Inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Capitol, Waahington, D.C., 1861// Althroughout the city the news spread. The President, that Lincoln fellow, had issued an Executive Order. //Executive order// //To the Commanding General of the Army of the United States: You are engaged in repressing an insurrection against the laws of the United States. If at any point on or in the vicinity of the military line used between the city of Philadelphia, via Perryville [Maryland, Annapolis City] and Annapolis Junction you find resistance it is necessary to suspend habeas corpus for the public safety, you personally or through the officer in command at the point where the resistance occurs are authorized to suspend the writ.// //**A. Lincoln**// //How could this be?// you thought. The secessionist voice had clammered to the tip of every Baltimoreans tongue--//had it not?// If there were two things you still held after the Riots it was that you supported the //correct// side--the Confederates and believed that they would be held in the victorous right hand; and that you were still marshal of the Baltimore Police, fulfilling the duties of your office //exquisitely// every day. [[An Official Narrative]]**22 April 1861** "//Baltimore was now a city in chaos and under arms.//" You receive word that there are 2,600 more Pennsylvania volunteers en route to Baltimore; however, they are stopped short of the city due to disassembled railroad tracks destroyed by you and your fellow Baltimoreans. President Lincoln, you find out, has been notified by the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad, "that there [are] gatherings of armed Marylanders prepared to attack the soldiers, and another riot was possible." The soldiers were forced to make camp. You hear rumors of men trying to make a fight with the soldiers--who were ill-equipped and famished; however, thanks to a Maryland Senator and Congressman, cooler heads prevailed. When you hear that only a few of the Pennsylvania troops had crackers, while the others had nothing, if some crumbs, you "arranged for the Pennsylvanians to be fed and receive some badly needed medical treatment." "//The Pennsylvanians finally returned home. But in Baltimore, the population was still filled with memories of the excitement of the riot and harangues, and there were calls by prominent citizens to take the road to secession. The city was now awash with Confederate flags flying everywhere, while only a few Union flags could be seen.//" <img id="panhack" class="item" src="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/habshaer/md/md0900/md0905/photos/086763pr.jpg" alt="19. Historic American Buildings Survey. Portion of a lithograph of Fort McHenry, by E. Sachse, 1862. Peale Museum, Baltimore. - Fort McHenry National Monument &amp; Historic Shrine, East Fort Avenue at Whetstone Point, Baltimore, Independent City, MD"> //Fort McHenry was one of the few places in the city where the Union flag still remained flying through the breeze (lithograph of Fort McHenry by E. Sachse, 1862)// [[You noticed a change in the city--you weren't quite sure what it was...but it was there...->For Every Action, There is a Reaction]]He reports to you the utmost important gossip--that General Butler, currently in Annapolis, is talking of taking a detachment of soldiers to Baltimore to control the citizens of Baltimore as they have the citizens of the state's capital. <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/may/annopolis-constitution.jpg" width="782" height="299"> //General View of Annapolis, with// The Constitution //in the foreground,// Harper's Weekly, //11 May 1861// [[Enter from Annapolis]] <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://i2.wp.com/baltimoreheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/lafayette-barracks.jpg" width="400" height="299"><img src="http://www.mainememory.net/media/images/625/75/34470.JPG" alt="7th Maine Regiment encampment, Baltimore, 1861" width="625" height="451"> //Lafayette Square & Patterson Park, 1861. Public spaces, such as parks, in Baltimore were utilized as camps for Union soldiers as the city was watched and guarded for four years due to Lincoln's declaration of martial rule in the city after the Riots// As you stroll down the street you can't help but notice the eerie feeling over the city. It's as though a dark cloud has fallen over Baltimore and the only light that shines through is the occasional strike of lightning. As you approach the park you hear voices...they are almost singing...but there are no instruments...just voices. As you come upon the green grass and step over to the crowd you hear James Ryder Randall's poem, [["My Maryland:"|http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/symbols/lyrics.html]] //The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland! Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets of Baltimore, And be the battle queen of yore, Maryland! My Maryland!// As you listen to the poem an acquaintance in the courts approaches you. You reach out your hand for a formal and stern handshake. Under the brim of his hat you see in his eyes but one thing...worry. [[A Bleak Report]] <img class="fancybox-image" src="http://www.areaofeffect.co.za/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dark_alley_24.jpg" alt=""> //A Dark Alley// As you shuffle down the street towards the tavern you hear voices from the city park. At first intrigued you raise your eyebrow and strain your ear to hear...something something Maryland my Maryland!...You stop and look upon the crowd gathered. [[Should you perhaps go to the park?]] [[Perhaps, you should continue on to the tavern...]]As you come upon the green grass and step over to the crowd you hear James Ryder Randall's poem, [["My Maryland:"|http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/symbols/lyrics.html]] <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/images/song.gif" width="302" height="299"> //James Ryder Randall, author of "My Maryland"// //The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland! Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets of Baltimore, And be the battle queen of yore, Maryland! My Maryland!//: As you listen to the poem an acquaintance from the courts approaches you. You reach out your hand for a formal and stern handshake. Under the brim of his hat you see in his eyes but one thing...worry. [[A Bleak Report]]As you enter the dark and damp tavern a stale smell briefly gags your senses. You find an empty bar stool and plop down. You order a shot of whiskey. It runs smoothly down your throat. <img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Old_Crow_advertisement.jpg/220px-Old_Crow_advertisement.jpg"> <img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/february/kentucky-bourbon-whiskey.jpg"> <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://www.civilwarbaptists.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/clintonwhiskey.jpg" width="231" height="299"> //Whiskey Labels & Advertisements// [[Maybe you should have another?]] [[Maybe you should go to the park...]]You order another shot. And another. And another. As you sit on your stool ruminating on your thoughts an acquiantance from the courts approaches you. You reach out your hand for a formal and stern handshake. Under the brim of his hat you see in his eyes but one thing...worry. [[A Bleak Report]]As you come upon the green grass and step over to the crowd you hear James Ryder Randall's poem, [["My Maryland:"|http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/symbols/lyrics.html]] <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/images/song.gif" width="302" height="299"> //James Ryder Randall, author of "My Maryland"// //The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland! Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets of Baltimore, And be the battle queen of yore, Maryland! My Maryland!// As you listen to the nine-stanza poem an acquaintance in the courts approaches you. You reach out your hand for a formal and stern handshake. Under the brim of his hat you see in his eyes but one thing...worry. [[A Bleak Report]]**3 May 1861** It was only a matter of time until officials from the State and Federal Governments would be inquiring, in their bureaucratic ways, as to the events of what took place on that Friday, the 19th of April 1861. You are ordered to compose your report on the events to present to the Board of Police Commissioners for [["An Official Narrative of the Facts in Relation to the Occurences which took place in this City on Friday, April 19, 1861."|http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/3/3f/Kane_george_defense.pdf]] You begin to write... //SIR:--The columns of the Baltimore //American// of this date contain an assault upon my official conduct as commanding officer of the police force of this city, in connection with the occurrences of the 19th of April last, which seems to require some notice, in order that the facts of the case may be duly registered on the journals of your office....I have the conviction that I have faithfully discharged the duties of the office of Marshal of Police during the extraordinary excitement which has pervaded this community...and that the force under my command has been successful in protecting the persons and property of people.// After completing your report, to your high standard of excellence of course, you decide it would be best to step outside and take a stroll...to somewhere...but where? [[To a nearby city park]]. [[Through some shady alleys to a tavern]].**13 May 1861** <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://cowanauctions.com/itemImages/tt3921.jpg" width="385" height="299"> //Fort Federal Hill, E. Sachse & Co., 1862// <img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_b1818_-_politician_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_13761.png/170px-Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_b1818_-_politician_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_13761.png"> //Major General Benjamin Butler, ca. 1870s// Benjamin Franklin Butler, brigadier general of the Massachusetts Militia, was "charged with controlling the area in and around Baltimore and Annapolis and getting the damaged rails running." Butler, you were well aware, had been in Annapolis since the 21st of April--you were certain that he would stay there given the tumultuous climate of Baltimore. However, when you awoke on the morning of May 13th, overlooking the city, stationed on Federal Hill, stood six cannons aiming menancingly down upon the city. Overnight Butler had enveloped the city. <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://www.mdhs.org/sites/default/files/cc969_ref_only.JPG" width="393" height="299"> //Federal Troops on Federal Hill, ca.1862-1865// But one thing came to your mind...a grievance put forth by the American Colonists to King George in the Declaration of Independence, "//He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the Civil Power...For depriving us in many cases of the benefit of Trial by Jury.//" [[A Dark Message]] <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc5500/sc5572/000001/000000/000014/images/brown.jpg" width="229" height="299"> <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s1259/121/7590/images/hicks01.gif" width="235" height="299"> //Mayor George W. Brown (published ca.1919) and Governor Thomas H. Hicks (published ca. 1861)// Daily you hear about the Riots--on the streets, at work, at home, in the newspapers. Given your report to the Board of Police Commissioners, in addition to reports given by the Mayor, George W. Brown and the Governor, Thomas Hicks, your name was surely to be cleared from this defamamtion of character. You were doing your job--you protected those passing Northern troops to the best of your ability and protected the city to the best of your ability--all within the parameters of the orders you were given. However, as passions become more divided and the nation more at war, you also hear daily of what you hope to be rumors...that you will be tried before the Courts for your roll in the Riots. What are you to do? [[Continue doing your duty as Chief of Police.->Important News from Maryland]] [[A Devilish Plan]]**20 June 1861** <img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016179/1865-12-28/ed-1/seq-1/thumbnail.jpg"> Scanning over a newspaper from western Maryland--the [[//Civilian & Telegraph//|http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016179/1861-06-20/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1836&index=19&rows=20&words=George+Kane+P&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=george+p.+kane&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1]] from Cumberland, Maryland, you notice a column titled "The Bridge Burning: Letter of Gov. Hicks in Reply to Mayor Brown." Your name appears ubiquitous throughout the paper; however, one paragraph columns over and rows down catches your eye... //The annexed copy of a handbill circulated throughout Western Maryland by Bradley T. Johnson is evidence that Marshal Kane and his allies had made all the necessary provisions in anticipation of the pre-arranged attack upon the Massachusetts troops....Add to this the undeniable fact that many of the volunteer companies in Maryland were eagerly looking for an outbreak...and I think no one can fail to see that the conspiracy, of which an attempt has been made to make me a participant, was fully and deliberately planned.// There was the signature in a bold black--**THOS. H. HICKS** How? How could this be? Hicks! How dare he! He denies his participation in the burning of those bridges when he commanded that order to you! You feel your face turn red, your palms begin to sweat...what is to come next? [[A Dark Day Indeed]] Time has gone by slowly for you...each click of the minute on the clock feels like an eternity. You barely sleep anymore. You are a shadow of your former self--you are still the Marshal of the Police, yet everyday you feel as though something is amiss. Then...you hear the news... [[A Dark Day Continued...]] Startled and scared by the possibility you will be arrested and detained at Fort McHenry leads you to map out an escape plan. You will simply not travel North, no matter how safeguarded roads to the South might be. <img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/hh/5/images/hh5m1.jpg"> //Fort McHenry, ca. 1865// [[Run for the Hills!]]You take off running through the forests...hoping that you will cross the Potomac and go into Virginia and into the C.S.A. rather than the damned scum of the North. [[The Pink & White Checkered Dress]]Rumors circulating around the city that you were to be detained by the Federal Government for your role in the Riots grow more and more everyday...until... <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-out;" src="http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/files/images/HD_arrestofkane1861c.preview.jpg" width="640" height="408"> **27 June 1861, Three A.M., BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, OUTSIDE OF MARSHAL OF POLICE GEORGE P. KANE’S HOME** Darkness lays on the city like a blanket with little illumination but from the light of the black sky with pockets of light found in the moon and stars. Creepy shadows follow the men down the street as a rat runs in front of them. None of the women of the night were seen walking the streets, no drunks and addicts stumbling sleeplessly about to the point of collapse, no lights stain the ground with their yellow glow. The men pick up speed as the clock strikes three times, the bell ringing out over silence. The city had not quite been right after the Riots. It had only been a day and a week since the streets ran red with the blood of Baltimoreans, Pennsylvanians, and the boys from Massachusetts. There was still an eerie feel to the city—it was a ticking time bomb, one hint of distress would surely ignite the citizens in a fury of chaos. [[An Escape Plan]] [[A Knocking on my Door]] "I did my best to protect this beloved city of mine. I called on men from Maryland and Virginia alike to heed my call for help as our streets ran red with Maryland blood! It was only necessary, and in every capacity of my duty, to fight them and whip them—the only other option was death." Banks stares back with a cold look of little sympathy, he says but one heavy handed statement to Kane: “You have betrayed your country...and for that you shall pay.” [[The Media]] You decide it would be easier to escape if you changed your appearance--modified in some sort of way so that you were unrecognizable. Stealing a pink and white checkered dress from a clothesline you disguise yourself as a woman as to escape off to the South... <img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/96/49/97/964997c9536687f59e779af4784a58ad.jpg" width="414" height="299"> [[Into Virginia and Out of Trouble]]<img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/fort-warren-boston-harbor_3.jpg" width="574" height="343"> //Capitol Square, Richmond, Virginia,// Harper's Weekly, //19 October 1861// Upon the agreement you made to be liberated from Fort Warren, you travel South. You arrive at Richmond, Virginia--the capital of the Confederate States of America (CSA). THE END <img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://image4.spreadshirtmedia.com/image-server/v1/compositions/109414580/views/1,width=235,height=235,appearanceId=4/Game-Over-Pixel-Text-Women-s-T-Shirts.jpg"> [[Bibliography]]“Well, go on, knock why don’t you? We can be heroes because of this—knock on the door!” “No! Beat on it! Wake that traitor up!” //Three large thuds as he laid his fist upon the door. No answer. Again but with more force and more determination. Again, no response.// //The men look at each other as if deciding how to best get into this house as this coward hides.// //Then a click—the door unlocks.// //The door opens spreading a sliver of light onto the ground from the candle the shadow holds.// “George Proctor Kane you're under arrest.” //The man swings the door wide open.// [[The Treasonous Kane]]You jump out of bed, sweating, as you hear a knocking on your door. //What time could it be?// you wonder to yourself. It's still dark outside--a midnight black. You make your way to the door, slowly, steadily... [[The Plot]]The door...it's open... You poke your head briefly out the door scanning the grounds, squinting into the night. You step back inside and close the door...and there stands a man. You are brutally stabbed, you bleed out from your sustained wounds...your eyes close in on the darkness, you take a labored breath for one last time. YOU HAVE BEEN ASSASINATED <img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://image4.spreadshirtmedia.com/image-server/v1/compositions/109414580/views/1,width=235,height=235,appearanceId=4/Game-Over-Pixel-Text-Women-s-T-Shirts.jpg"> [[Bibliography]]Banks had issued a [[proclamation|http://www.nytimes.com/1861/06/28/news/important-from-maryland-arrest-of-marshall-kane.html?pagewanted=print]] on the day of your arrest wherein he stated: //I have arrested, and now do detain in custody, Mr. GEORGE P. KANE, Chief of Police for the City of Baltimore. I deem it proper at this the moment of arrest, to make a formal and public declaration of the motive by which I have been governed in this proceeding.// He accused you of aiding and abetting those in rebellion against the Government. Therefore, //Under such circumstances the Goverment cannot regard him [you] otherwise than as the head of an armed force, hostile to its authority, and acting in concert with its avowed enemies, for this reason, superceding his official authority, as well as that of the Commissioners of Police, I have arrested and now do detain him in custody of the United States.// <img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-east/Fort%20McHenry,occupied%20by%20the%203rd%20Battalion%20of%20Rifles,%20John%20H.%20Bufford,%201861.jpg"> //Fort McHenry, occupied by the 3rd Battalion of Rifles, John H. Bufford, 1861// Kane was detained at Fort McHenry, where he remained until he was sent to [[Fort Warren]].<img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/files/images/HD_MonSqBaltimore1861z.preview.jpg" width="445" height="299"> //Monument Square, Baltimore, After Marshal Kane's Arrest, 27 June 1861// Newspapers from throughout the country published articles announcing the news of Marshal Kane's arrest. From the //Evening Star// in Washington, D.C., Thursday, 27 June 1861: //At three o'clock this morning, George P. Kane, Marshal of Police, was arrested at his house, by order of Major General Banks, and conveyed to Fort McHenry, where he is now held as a prisoner. General Banks has issued a proclamation...[which] gives us a reason for the arrest of Kane that he is known to be aiding and abetting those in armed rebellion to the Government, and is at the head of an armed force which he has used to conceal, rather than detect, acts of treason against the Government.// Holed up in Fort McHenry your Southern sympathies only become stronger, you only become more devoted to the Southern cause, the righteous cause, after your being accused of treason and arrested and thrown into jail as though you were a common vagrant. [[The Trial]]<img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in;" src="http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/fort-warren-boston-harbor_3.jpg" width="574" height="343"> //Fort Warren,// Harper's Weekly, //7 December 1861// You spend fourteen months at Fort Warren--the months seem long and grueling; however there is a new chance for you on the horizon. [[You are liberated!|http://www.nytimes.com/1862/11/29/news/state-prisoners-released-in-boston-fort-warren-cleared-on-thanksgiving-day.html]] There are stipulations though, and one of them is that you must go South after your release. [[Onward South]]Finally, after nights of crawling under the stars you reach the Potomac River--this is your chance to cross into Virginia--a Southern state! However, you are not sure if you should attempt to wade the river or find dry land around. [[Attempt to Wade the River]] [[Find Dry Land to Cross the River]]Picking up your dress you wade slowly into the Potomac River. You take a few steps in before you slip on a rock. Your boot becomes lodged. You begin to panic. The current is too strong...you're unable to fight the undercurrent...and then...you have to let go. You've lost all strength as your muscles strain and down below you go...never to be seen again. YOU HAVE DROWNED <img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://image4.spreadshirtmedia.com/image-server/v1/compositions/109414580/views/1,width=235,height=235,appearanceId=4/Game-Over-Pixel-Text-Women-s-T-Shirts.jpg"> [[Bibliography]]You find a bridge spanning the river's length. Although the bridge is old and rickety, you manage to make it across. You step off the wobbling bridge onto the hard ground, only to be startled by a shouting man: "Stop! Who goes there?" Out from behind a toll booth comes a man with a shotgun. Before your synapses can even fire to make your mouth produce words, you fall back onto the bridge as a loud gunshot rings out. 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