Baltimore Riots (other)
Baltimore riots can refer to several incidents of civil unrest in Baltimore, Maryland's history. It generally refers to the Baltimore Riot of 1861 (also known as the "Pratt Street Riots"), where a mob of Confederate Southern sympathizers attacked newly raised Union state militia troops transiting through the town on April 18–19, 1861 in some of the first bloodshed of the American Civil War. It may also refer to: * Baltimore doctors' riots (1807) *1812 Baltimore riots * Baltimore bank riot (1835) * Know-Nothing Riot of 1856 * Baltimore election riot of 1857 * Baltimore election riot of 1858 * Baltimore election riot of 1859 * Baltimore railroad strike of 1877, strikes and riots which took place as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 * Baltimore riot of 1919, part of Red Summer * Baltimore riot of 1968, one of a series of nationwide riots in response to the death of national civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. * 2015 Baltimore protests, a series of protests and riot ...
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Baltimore Riot Of 1861
The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland. It occurred between antiwar "Copperhead" Democrats (the largest party in Maryland) and other Confederate sympathizers on one side, and on the other, members of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania state militia regiments en route to the national capital at Washington who had been called up for federal service. The fighting began at the President Street Station, spreading throughout President Street and subsequently to Howard Street, where it ended at the Camden Street Station. The riot produced the first deaths of Union volunteers by hostile action, although caused by civilians, in the American Civil War. Civilians among the attackers also were killed. Background In 1861, many Baltimoreans did not support a violent conflict with their southern neighbors and some of them strongly sympathized with t ...
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