George William Brown

George William Brown

George William Brown was the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland from 1860 to 1861.

Pratt Street Riot

Brown played an important role in controlling the Pratt Street Riot on April 19, 1861, at the onset of the American Civil War. After the Pratt Street Riot, some small skirmishes occurred throughout Baltimore between citizens and police for the next month. However, in short time, a sense of normalcy returned to the city. Still, Mayor Brown and Maryland Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks implored President Abraham Lincoln to reroute Union troops around Baltimore city and through Annapolis to avoid further confrontations.

On the evening of April 20 1861, one day after the Pratt Street Riot, Governor Hicks authorized Mayor Brown to dispatch the Maryland state militia for the purpose of disabling the railroad bridges into the city. This was an act Hicks would later deny. One month later, a Maryland militia captain, John Merryman, was arrested without a writ of habeas corpus. This arrest sparked the case of "Ex parte Merryman".

President Lincoln agreed to reroute Union troops through Annapolis. The Maryland capital city was a Southern Democratic town and full of secessionists, but it was still safer than Baltimore. However, once enough Union troops had made it to Washington, D.C., and the national capital city was well defended, Lincoln resolved to end the problems in Baltimore.

Imprisonment

On May 13, the Union army entered Baltimore, occupied the city, and declared martial law. Mayor Brown, the city council, and the police commissioner, who were all seen as being pro-South, were arrested and imprisoned at Fort McHenry for the balance of the war. The grandson of Francis Scott Key was also made a prisoner.

Later life

Almost three years before he died, Brown wrote his memoir. In it. he was referred to Quaker Johns Hopkins as a "wealthy Union man" and as a member of a committee of bankers who gave $500,000 to the city of Baltimore after the first bloodshed in the Civil War was shed there. Hopkins selected Brown as one of the trustees of the university (but not of the hospital) who would oversee the construction and founding of the institutions now known as the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

References

Brown, G. W. (1887). Baltimore and the nineteenth of April 1861; a study of the war. Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, extra vol. 3. Baltimore, N. Murray.

ee also

* Baltimore Plot
* United States presidential election, 1860
* Thomas Holliday Hicks
* John Merryman
* "Ex parte Merryman"
* Maryland, My Maryland


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