. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . a he was made Attorney-General. On June 18, 1812, after debating for fifteen passed the War Act. President Madison signed itthe same day. The Union was then made up of eighteenStates—the thirteen original, Delaware, Pennsylvania, NewJersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, SouthCarolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Caro-lina and Rhode Island, with Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee,Ohio and Louisiana. Baltimore merchants loaned the Government $3,000,000,and this, later
. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . a he was made Attorney-General. On June 18, 1812, after debating for fifteen passed the War Act. President Madison signed itthe same day. The Union was then made up of eighteenStates—the thirteen original, Delaware, Pennsylvania, NewJersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, SouthCarolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Caro-lina and Rhode Island, with Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee,Ohio and Louisiana. Baltimore merchants loaned the Government $3,000,000,and this, later assumed by the city, became the foundation ofBaltimores first municipal debt. When war was declared thegeneral Government was practically bankrupt, with liabilitiesamounting to $45,154,000. Congress authorized a war loanof $1 1,000,000. Baltimore merchants were the first to sub-scribe. Finding none of this available for her own defense,the city raised another $600,000. The first gun of the war was fired by a Maryland man, whenCommodore John Rodgers, a native of Havre de Grace, and 13. © Hiireris & Euin THOMAS R. MARSHALL CHAMP CLARK Vice-President of the United States Speaker of the House of RepresentativesHonorary Vice-Presidents of Centennial Commission &5t^^^pTn^led official programme ceS^^S^(S) later a resident of Baltimore, aboard his flagship, President,attacked the British frigate Belvidera, June 23, Rodgers was in command of the North AtlanticSquadron. Three days after war was declared he receivedthe news while his ship was lying at New York. Within anhour he had weighed anchor and put to sea. Coming up with theBelvidera off Nantucket Shoals, Commodore Rodgers withhis own hand pointed and fired the first shot of the war, hullingthe enemy. A gun burst on the President, injuring hercommander. In the confusion that followed the British vesselescaped. A Baltimore man. Captain David Porter, captured the firstBritish national vessel, the Alert, whose colors
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