Young folks' history of the United States . ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 294 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. The firstcall fortroops. When President Lincoln was inaugurated (March 4,1861), the regular army was very small, and very muchscattered; but, on the 15th of April, he issued a callfor seventy-five thousand volunteers for three monthsonly. A few regiments of militia were hastily sum-moned from the different States for the defence ofWashington. One of these, the Sixth SIXTH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT ATTACKED BY A MOB. Baltimore was attacked by a mob in passing through Baltimore;and, after thr
Young folks' history of the United States . ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 294 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. The firstcall fortroops. When President Lincoln was inaugurated (March 4,1861), the regular army was very small, and very muchscattered; but, on the 15th of April, he issued a callfor seventy-five thousand volunteers for three monthsonly. A few regiments of militia were hastily sum-moned from the different States for the defence ofWashington. One of these, the Sixth SIXTH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT ATTACKED BY A MOB. Baltimore was attacked by a mob in passing through Baltimore;and, after three men had been killed by stones andclubs, one company fired on the mob in return, killingnine men, and wounding many. This took place onApril 19, 1861, the anniversary of the Battle of Lex-ington. It produced almost as much excitement asthe attack on Fort Sumter, not that the Baltimore ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY. 295 affair was a deliberate act of organized rebellion, butthat it showed the feeling of hostility to the govern-ment wherever slavery existed. When it was necessary to send the next troops Troopsthrough Maryland, they were not marched through Bal- throughtimore, but through Annapolis. General Butler, with ^^poi^sregiments of militia from Massachusetts and NewYork, passed along the line of railway from Annapolisto Washington; the soldiers repairing it as they a wrecked locomotive by the roadside, thegeneral asked if there was any one in the ra
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