. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . sensational telegrams received,induced Lincoln, on the afternoon of Saturday,April 20, to telegraph to Governor Hicks andMayor Brown to come by special train, as hedesired to consult them relative to preserv-ing the peace of Maryland. The governorhad gone to Annapolis, and after the inter-change of various messages, the mayor him-self was asked to come. So soon as the Baltimore route was closedby the riot of the 19th of April, the railroadauthorities || at Philadelphia had with com-mendable energy devised and prepared a new * Lincoln to Hick
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . sensational telegrams received,induced Lincoln, on the afternoon of Saturday,April 20, to telegraph to Governor Hicks andMayor Brown to come by special train, as hedesired to consult them relative to preserv-ing the peace of Maryland. The governorhad gone to Annapolis, and after the inter-change of various messages, the mayor him-self was asked to come. So soon as the Baltimore route was closedby the riot of the 19th of April, the railroadauthorities || at Philadelphia had with com-mendable energy devised and prepared a new * Lincoln to Hicks and Brown, April 20, 1861.+ Hicks to Brown, April 20, 1861. War J. G. N., personal memoranda. Unpublished Scharf, History of Maryland. II Great credit is due to Mr. S. M. Felton, thenpresident of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Balti-more Railroad, the same who devised the precautionsat the time of Mr. Lincolns night journey througliBaltimore. Mr. Felton, heartily seconded by J. Ed-gar Thomson, then president of the Pennsylvania. MAP OF THE APPROACHES TO WASHINGTON. route—by rail to Perryville on the Susque-hanna; thence by water on Chesapeake Bay toAnnapolis; thence by railroad, or, if that weredestroyed, common wagon-roads to Washing-ton. This they suggested to General Scott onthe 20th, and he ordered it adopted the sameday. That same forenoon Hon. David Wil-mot, making his way northward from Wash-ington as best he could, wrote back fromBaltimore to the General-in-Chief, confirmingthe rumor that some of the bridges of thePhiladelphia road had been destroyed, thetelegraph interrupted, and rapid communica-tion with the North cut off; and added,Troops coming on your road [from Harris-l^urg to Baltimore] could leave it about threemiles from Baltimore, and by a march of fivemiles reach the Washington road some two Railroad, by intimate knowledge and control of fa-cilities, railroad cars, and steam vessels, was able atonce to order such new combinations on an e
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