Posted on 11/20/2014 5:40:13 PM PST by Nachum
Mayor Brown, U.S. Congressman Henry May, the city council, the police commissioner, and the entire Board of Police, were arrested and imprisoned at Fort McHenry.”
oh! and THEN as if that were not enough!
quote “One third of the members of the Maryland General Assembly were then arrested on September 17, 1861, the first day of the legislature’s new session, to prevent any anti-war votes”
you see that? “to prevent any anti-war votes” !! ahhh Lincoln, what a GREAT GUY!!! *puke*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_in_the_American_Civil_War
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