. The great Civil War : a history of the late rebellion, with biographical sketches of leading statesmen also distinguished naval and military commanders, etc. . ng the Massachusetts men reachedthe city. Here horses were attachedto the cars to convey them from oneend to the other of the city to reachthe depot of the Baltimore and Wash-ington Railroad. The regiment filledeleven cars. Meeting with no oppositionon their arrival, or indication even of anunfriendly spirit, the regiment startedin the most cheerful mood. Fears, it istrue, had been expressed by some anx-ious inhabitants of the
. The great Civil War : a history of the late rebellion, with biographical sketches of leading statesmen also distinguished naval and military commanders, etc. . ng the Massachusetts men reachedthe city. Here horses were attachedto the cars to convey them from oneend to the other of the city to reachthe depot of the Baltimore and Wash-ington Railroad. The regiment filledeleven cars. Meeting with no oppositionon their arrival, or indication even of anunfriendly spirit, the regiment startedin the most cheerful mood. Fears, it istrue, had been expressed by some anx-ious inhabitants of the danger of an at-tack, but these were now deemed onlythe alarms of the timid. The cars, how-ever, had only proceeded the length oftwo blocks, or squares of houses, whenit became clear that the anxiety of theBaltimoreans was not unfounded. Agreat mass of excited people so ob-structed the streets that the horses couldhardly push through it. This mob atthe same time began with hootings,j^ells, and threatening cries, to try toprovoke the Massachusetts men. Thesoldiers, however, neither showed them-selves nor responded to the insults theyStones, brickbats, and. ft S3 35 BALTIMORE MOB. 187 bits of pavement torn from the side-walks were now thrown by the infuria-ted mob against the cars, smashing thewindows and bruising some of thetroops. In spite, however, of this at-tack, nine of the cars moved steadilyon, and deposited their inmates in safetyat the depot. Two cars, with the restof the Massachusetts men, were yet be-hind. In the mean time, the Baltimore mobhad succeeded in obstructing the trackby means of large and heavy ironanchors, lying near by, which theydragged hito the street and placedacross the rails. The mob having ac-complished this work, began to exultwith loud shouts for the South, Jef-ferson Davis, South Carolina, and secession, to give vent to their hatredof the North by groans for Lincolnand Massachusetts, and to attack thesoldiers, from some of whom they suc-ceeded i
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