[Non-Sequitur]

Don't know about July, but the Official Records contain a Sept. 20, 1861 report from McClellan to Seward about the status of the Maryland legislature as of that date.

I know about the Maryland legislature and the September arrest of those trying to get Maryland to join the rebellion, but 4CJ had been talking about mass arrests of legislators and newspaper editors prior to Congress convening on July 4. I hadn't heard of those and was asking for details.

[GOPcapitalist]

I know about the Maryland legislature and the September arrest of those trying to get Maryland to join the rebellion, but 4CJ had been talking about mass arrests of legislators and newspaper editors prior to Congress convening on July 4. I hadn't heard of those and was asking for details.

IIRC the first wave of arrests happened in Baltimore not long after the Pratt Street Massacre and the arrival of Butler on the scene. I don't remember who or how many were arrested, but I do know there were some because I remember seeing a display on it at the museum they have now inside one of the old train depots.