What to see in America . Maryland acquired itspopular name of the Old Line State. Marylands chief city is Baltimore, one of the greatest ofAmerican seaports, fourteen miles up the Patapsco Riverfrom Chesapeake Bay. It was settled in 1709, but had onlytwo hundred inhabitants in 1752. After that it developedrapidly. Oliver Wendell Holmes has said that three shortAmerican poems, each the best of its kind, were all writtenin Baltimore — Keys Star Spangled Banner, PoesRaven, and Randalls Maryland, My Maryland. Thecircumstances of the production of the first of these areespecially noteworthy. In Sep
What to see in America . Maryland acquired itspopular name of the Old Line State. Marylands chief city is Baltimore, one of the greatest ofAmerican seaports, fourteen miles up the Patapsco Riverfrom Chesapeake Bay. It was settled in 1709, but had onlytwo hundred inhabitants in 1752. After that it developedrapidly. Oliver Wendell Holmes has said that three shortAmerican poems, each the best of its kind, were all writtenin Baltimore — Keys Star Spangled Banner, PoesRaven, and Randalls Maryland, My Maryland. Thecircumstances of the production of the first of these areespecially noteworthy. In September, 1814, the Britishattempted to captureBaltimore, and FrancisScott Key went to theenemy fleet in a smallboat flying a flag oftruce to plead for therelease of a civilianfriend who was heldcaptive on one of thevessels. Lord Cock-burn, commander ofthe fleet, detained was about to bom-bard Fort McHenry onWhetstone Point, andboasted that its flagwould be hauled down in a few hours. The Foet McHenry at Baltimore. 134 What to See in America bombardment began on the morning of the 14th and contin-ued through the following night. When day broke, the flagwas still there, and in the gray dawn, Key, who had beenan anxious onlooker, wrote on the back of a letter whichhe laid on a barrel-head the thoughts that had been pass-ing through his mind. Within a week the verses wereprinted in the Baltimore Patriot. Soon afterward they werefirst sung in a restaurant of the city. The song was caughtup in intense enthusiasm, and is now heard wherever thenational flag has gone in every portion of the globe. In April, 1861, great excitement was created in the Northby an attack on the 6th Massachusetts Regiment in theBaltimore streets. This was the first full regiment to respondto President Lincolns call for troops. After suffering froman assault with stones, clubs, and pistols, which their lives, a part of the regiment fired on the mob,killing eleven and wounding many ot
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