1 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello, and thank you for tuning in. We're 2 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: going to begin today's episode with a bit of song. Goody, 3 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: I hear the distant thunder, hum Carlyn by Marylyn, the 4 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 1: online beutl Fighte and drum Marylyn by Marylyn. She is 5 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,279 Speaker 1: not dead, nor deaf nor dumb Hussah. She's burns when 6 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: Mordern's come, she'd read she burns, she come, she come, Marylyn, 7 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: my marrow. What you just heard, Friends and Neighbors is 8 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: an excerpt from one of the most famous songs in 9 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: Maryland's history. Hello, I'm Ben, Oh, I'm no. And what 10 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 1: was it that gave it away? Was it the oh Maryland, 11 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: Oh Maryland? Yeah, and we only played a part of 12 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: that song, but trust us that that sick hook comes 13 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: in to play multiple times. Well, it starts off, you know, 14 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 1: innocently enough as a nice rollicking h if derivative tune. 15 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: What's that tune? Ben, I can't quite put my finger 16 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: on it. I'm pretty sure we both know it's a 17 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: tanabo vaguely holiday cent trick. Yeah, okay, I was being coined. 18 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: But right starts off innocently enough lyrically speaking, And then 19 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 1: the part we play things take a bit of a turn, 20 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: don't they ben they do, And we also hope this 21 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: amuses our estranged super producer, Casey Pegram, who we promise 22 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: is still out and about but will come in from 23 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: the cold very soon. Nol. Should we should we read 24 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: that last verse for anyone who didn't get it? Yeah? Yeah, 25 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 1: I mean those those big, booming, you know, swingle singer 26 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: type voices could have obscured some meaning there. So they're saying, 27 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: I hear the distant thunder hum Maryland, the old line bugle, 28 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: Fife and drum Maryland. So far, so good. Fine, she 29 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb. Huzzah. She spurns 30 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: the northern scum. Oh wait what she breathes, she burns. 31 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:37,239 Speaker 1: She'll come, She'll come, Maryland, My Maryland. Man, they're really 32 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: into Maryland. I'm sorry, the northern scum. Yes, yes, indeed, 33 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: my friend, the northern scum. You see the song that 34 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: was for a long time the state song of Maryland 35 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: turned out to be belligerent to other states in the 36 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: fair Union of the US. But man, why would they 37 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: do that. I'm so glad. I'm so glad that we 38 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: asked this question today, because it's one of those historical 39 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, historical footnotes that everyone would just accept 40 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: as normal. Let's face it, many people here in the 41 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: US don't pay that much attention to the song of 42 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: a particular state. I think ours is Georgia on my mind, right, 43 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: And that's sort of rare to have something of a 44 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: modern song, like what you would consider a pop type 45 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: song as your state song. Typically they're more classic folky 46 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: type songs, right, And as you said, they're also occasionally 47 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: plagiarized in terms of melody. Well, you know, there's only 48 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: so many melodies, there are only so many notes to 49 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: go around. And the lyrics to this song, which you 50 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: can find in full with a little bit of Google food, 51 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: or which we might post on ridiculous historians when this 52 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: episode comes out. I'm more into google kwondo myself. Yeah, 53 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: you're a Google kwondo. So it's all about the uh 54 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: what is that? The grapple? Yeah, sweep sweep the lke. 55 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: I don't know about any of this stuff, and I 56 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: just just spit ball on here. But there here's a 57 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: little passage in the tune that really makes us think. 58 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: And this is what kind of got us to dig 59 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 1: into a little bit more background here, avenge the patriotic 60 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: gore that flecked the streets of Baltimore and be the 61 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: battle queen of your Maryland, my Maryland. Kind of this 62 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 1: personification of Maryland as being some sort of badass avenging warrior. Right, 63 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 1: and what's this? Uh? What's this? What are these gore 64 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 1: flexed streets of Baltimore reference here? Right? And right before 65 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: we get to that, just want to establish what I 66 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: was saying. We will go ahead, I'll do it. We'll 67 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 1: post these lyrics and full because you really should read 68 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: along with them if you can uh to to see this. 69 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: There's a lot of illusion and reference in this and 70 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,919 Speaker 1: your app slutely ritinal. There's something more to the story 71 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: here when we see this personification of Maryland as a 72 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: heroic protector of downtrodden people, and it traces back to 73 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: a real life event, isn't that correct? One that occurred 74 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty one? A real life event indeed, um, 75 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: And it's something it really drew attention to, something that 76 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: I was unaware of. I think Maryland and I think 77 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: northern I think Maryland is right next to New York. 78 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: I think it's like got the same sensibilities and historical leanings. 79 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: As it turns out not the case. No, yeah, that's 80 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: a mid Atlantic state. But during the time of the 81 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: Civil War, and for a lot of time during the 82 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 1: formation of what would later become recognized as the modern US, 83 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: Maryland was considered a Southern state, very much so, both 84 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: geographically and culturally ideologically as well. Right, yes, because Maryland, 85 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: you see, had a lot of tobacco and as a result, 86 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: they were a slave state for some time. So then 87 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: let's get back to those gore speckled streets of Baltimore, 88 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: which is pretty dope to rhyme Gore and Baltimore. Yes, 89 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: let us travel there. The gore soaked streets in question 90 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: are themselves in Baltimore, specifically a street called Pratt Street 91 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: p R A T. T. On April nineteenth and eighteen 92 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: sixty one, on Pratt Street in Baltimore, there was a 93 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 1: conflict that led to a riot or what some would 94 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: call a massacre, between two ideologically opposed groups in the city. 95 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: That's right, um, honest, Abe, Lincoln, the president you might 96 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: have heard of him, was not the most popular guy. 97 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: He actually had a nickname that I only just recently discovered, 98 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 1: the rail splitter. You know about this. Yeah, I guess, 99 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: because I guess, and I can only assume it means 100 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: because he divided the country. Oh yep. Yeah, So that's 101 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: what happened, right. You had like the the Union versus 102 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: the Confederacy, Confederacy being the pro slave states that wanted 103 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: to secede from the Union, and then you had the 104 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: primarily northern Union states and the Union army. Lincoln called 105 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: for a rallying of troops to protect the capital in Washington, 106 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: d C. After the bombarding of Fort Sumter in um 107 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: is it Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, I believe right, Yes, 108 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: that's correct. Yeah, and which apparently wasn't of particular um 109 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: military strategic value to the North, but it became this 110 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: kind of symbol of Union forces that to the point 111 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: where it was symbolically, I suppose, attacked by Confederate forces. 112 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: And that is when the Civil War really kicked off. Yeah, 113 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: the first shots of the war. That occurs in the 114 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: first Battle of Fort Sumter on April twelfth, eighteen sixty one. 115 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: And so Lincoln, as we said, needs to protect d C. 116 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: And he orders a ton of troops to go to 117 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: the capitol and prepare for war with the Southern States 118 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: who are seceding from the Union. A lot of these 119 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: troops were brought through a major transportation hub at the time, 120 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: Baltimore City. But there was a problem because in Maryland 121 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: there were tons and tons of people who, even if 122 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: they were, you know, generally anti war, they were sympathetic 123 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: with the Confederate side to secession, to this idea they 124 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: should be allowed to do that if they so chose, 125 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: and they really resented this notion of Union troops passing 126 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: through their city. They saw it as intimidation in some form, 127 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: or even the idea that they would be there to 128 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: prevent them from succeeding if they wanted to, and to 129 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: you know, try to hold them at gunpoint in the Union, right. Yeah, 130 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: And that's that's a fact that we can't gloss over 131 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: because you can imagine how easily people could perceive it 132 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: that way. It even if it is not intended to 133 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: be a show of force, it comes across as one 134 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: and there's there's no way around it. This leads to 135 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: simmering unsustainable tension because there were two sides. There were 136 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 1: people who were out and out Confederate sympathizers saying we 137 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: should join with what we see as the good cause, 138 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: the right to secede. And then there were other people 139 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: who were saying, we object to waging a war against 140 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 1: our states to the south or southern neighbors. Whether or 141 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: not we agree with their aims right and and whether 142 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: or not this gentleman Baltimore mayor George W. Brown Down 143 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: personally agree with those aims isn't clear from what I've read. 144 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,319 Speaker 1: But what he knew was that it wasn't going to 145 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: go particularly well if these Union soldiers marched through his city, 146 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: and so he actually wrote a letter of warning to 147 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: a blank him, and it went as such, the people 148 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: are exasperated the highest degree by the passage of troops, 149 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: and the citizens are universally decided in the opinion that 150 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: no more should be ordered to come. Um. The authorities 151 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: did their best to protect both strangers and citizens and 152 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: to prevent a collision. But in vain does my solemn 153 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: duty to inform you that it is not possible for 154 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: more soldiers to pass through Baltimore unless they fight their 155 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: way at every step. So there had already been a 156 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: trickle of forces going through, because, as we said, there 157 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 1: was this railroad hub. They had to switch lines to 158 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: Camden Station, which was a mile and a half west 159 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 1: of the P W and B depot, where they would 160 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: get off and march through the city to the other 161 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: line and then make their way directly to Washington, d C. 162 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: So there had clearly already been some tensions in the 163 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: streets during previous passing through of these forces, and the 164 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: mayor was really trying his best to keep these tensions 165 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 1: at a summer rather than boiling over to keep an 166 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 1: increasingly fragile peace. Unfortunately, his efforts, as well intentioned as 167 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: they were, were in vain, and as Union troops came 168 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 1: through Baltimore on their way south in April of eighteen 169 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: sixty one, they were attacked by mobs and Union troops 170 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,199 Speaker 1: as well as Baltimore residents civilians. Mind you were killed 171 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: in these riots. Yeah, this gets super hairy, super quick. 172 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: There's another story to involving travel on this line. Lincoln 173 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: himself had to pass through this area under cover of 174 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: night because of the Union sympathizers there and fear that 175 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: there would be an attempt on his life. So there 176 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 1: was actually like a political cartoon that was circulating um 177 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: of a Lincoln kind of sheepishly peeking out of a 178 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: box car as though he were, you know, a thief 179 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: in the night kind of. So yeah, he Um Lincoln 180 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: had only one, i think something in the neighborhood of 181 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: three percent of the vote in Baltimore during the election, 182 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: So not not a well liked guy. But similarly to 183 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: the Lincoln story, at first, no one knew that there 184 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 1: were troops on this train that was coming through. It 185 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: looked like any other um freight train, right. The arrival 186 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:41,439 Speaker 1: of the soldiers was largely not registered by the civilians, 187 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 1: the people just walking around in Baltimore. But rumors started 188 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: spreading very quickly. And again, as you said, there was 189 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: that what three percent approval rating you mentioned, not so good, 190 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: not good at all, And the residents and the local 191 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: community leaders aps lutely publicly disliked the new administration of 192 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,719 Speaker 1: the Union. And when they found out that the soldiers, 193 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:13,719 Speaker 1: specifically volunteers from the sixth Massachusetts, I believe when they 194 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: found out they were in the city, that they were 195 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: about to make the transfer to Camden. They were doing 196 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: this in daylight, and there was a relatively short distance 197 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: for them, right it was let's see that It's like 198 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: they go four blocks north to blocks south, Like we 199 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: have the blocks mapped out, and this short distance is 200 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 1: where everything hits the fan, historically speaking, because the Baltimoreans 201 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 1: are already very sensitive, these rumors are becoming increasingly believable 202 00:13:55,520 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 1: to the average citizen. Railroad officials already and Tis spate 203 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: that there could be trouble, and if trouble occurs, it 204 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: will occur in this switch. Did you know that during 205 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: that switch they would literally unhook the train cars from 206 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: the track and pull them through town. Yeah, that's wild. 207 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: So that was happening right with these soldiers, and it 208 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: kind of ended up like a you know, wild West 209 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: wagon train shootout because even before this crazy decoupling situation happens, 210 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: the soldiers were noticed. Yeah, the soldiers were noticed, and 211 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: the soldiers themselves from Massachusetts were prepared because the commander, 212 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: Colonel Edward Jones, had received these warnings from railroad officials, 213 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: so they were ready for a situation to go sideways, 214 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: to go pear shaped, or appropriate for this episode, for 215 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: things to go south. So imagine the tension in the 216 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: inside these cars. These guys are sitting ducks. They know 217 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: the a commander knows that if something is going to 218 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: go wrong. It's going to go wrong in this fateful 219 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: passage between railroad stations. So inside the cars, the soldiers 220 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: are literally trying not to look out of the windows 221 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: because just like the beginning maybe of a zombie film 222 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: you mentioned Wild West. To me, it feels like a 223 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: zombie thing where you see one straggler approach, and then more, 224 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: and then more and then more. Because workers and residents 225 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: of the area start following the line of cars, which 226 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: is I believe about seven cars long at this time, 227 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: that is correct, And they were pulled by horses down 228 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: Pratt Street heading towards this Camden station, and the crowd 229 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: gets bigger and bigger and more unruly. People are shouting 230 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: jeff Davis, as in Jefferson Davis, who was the president 231 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: of the Confederacy. And as this, as this simmer grows 232 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: into a roilng boil, all the sudden something snaps. People 233 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 1: start throwing stones at the very last coach, like big 234 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: old paving stones. Yeah yeah, and some of them were 235 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: armed with pistols. I think someone got their their thumb 236 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: blasted off, you know, bleeding out in the streets there. 237 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: People were getting hit. So all of the cars except 238 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: for two got to where they needed to go. But 239 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: these uh, these mobsters I'm gonna call them, we're doing 240 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: stuff like they were throwing obstacles in the road like 241 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: anvils and sand and and and just I mean they 242 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: were ready, I guess right, this is crazy. And so 243 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: the cars that were remaining that were blocked, the soldiers 244 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: had to get off. And again we have to emphasize 245 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: that they had no sympathizers in the crowd on their side, 246 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: so it didn't seem like it. Yeah, there was nobody 247 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: standing by moving anchors away from the road. In fact, 248 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: there was a there was a businessman named Charles Pendergast 249 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: who supplied people with crowbars and pick axes and said, 250 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 1: you know, and convinced them, not that it took much 251 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: arm twisting, convinced them to pull the rails up from 252 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: the street because the paved streets we should mention, had 253 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: rails to make it easier for the horses to pull 254 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 1: the cars. Exactly. So let's just clarify real quick. So 255 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: this first onslaught on these troops came while they were 256 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: still in the cars. They were trying their damn just 257 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: not to make eye contact with the zombie weirdos. That 258 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 1: were outside that you mentioned earlier. Um, But then of 259 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 1: course they unleashed hell on these cars, started literally firing 260 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,959 Speaker 1: upon them and throwing paving stones, like I said, through it, 261 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: and a guy got his thumb blown off. And that 262 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: was when he asked Major Benjamin Watson, who was in 263 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:01,360 Speaker 1: this car with him, for permission to fire on the crowd, 264 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: and he granted this permission, and so they were able 265 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: to kind of shoot up and away a volley of 266 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: shots through the windows, meaning to disperse the crowd, not 267 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: to hurt, not not that directly to kill, uh. And 268 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: that was enough to to get them a little bit 269 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 1: more freedom where they could they could kind of proceed 270 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: for a second, for a minute, because after after not 271 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 1: much time had passed, this began to turn into a 272 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: full on gun battle, and the rails were successfully pulled 273 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: from the pavement, so there wasn't a way for the 274 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: horses to continue pulling the cars. And this means that 275 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: the stranded soldiers have to do something incredibly dangerous. A 276 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: last resort, over two hundred of them have to get 277 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: out of the cars in gunfire and walk they're unlucky 278 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: keisters to the train station and they they formed a 279 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 1: sort of a phalanx like a formation um and in 280 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: the hopes that they could keep these riders at bay. 281 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: I do want to read a pretty cool quote from 282 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 1: this article on history net Um about this particular event 283 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: called Baltimore Riot of eighteen sixty one. In this car um, 284 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 1: the major gives kind of a pep talk where he 285 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: says that you will likely be called horrible names. People 286 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: will throw things at you, people will do anything they 287 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: can to mess with you, and he uses the term 288 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: even if they throw stones, bricks, or other missiles at you, Um, 289 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: just don't look at them, don't don't pay them any mind. 290 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: But if you're fired upon and any one of you 291 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: is hit, your officers will order you to fire. Do 292 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: not fire into any promiscuous crowds, but select any man 293 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 1: whom you may see aiming at you, and be sure 294 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: you drop him. So don't hurt anyone who is just 295 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: standing with the crowd protests, I guess. But if someone 296 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: is aiming to do of possibly fatal damage, take him out. 297 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: So now this has come to pass. This was earlier. 298 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: This was them kind of like preparing for what might happen, 299 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: gripping their rifles. They were all issued a certain number 300 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: of rounds in preparation for this hairy journey. And now 301 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: the the s has hit the f My friend, yes, 302 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,959 Speaker 1: very much so. And there's a merchant named Richard Fisher. 303 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: He is doing business with a sea captain from Spain. 304 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: A Spanish guy there watching these riders on the second 305 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,919 Speaker 1: floor of Fisher's business, and the sea captain says, you 306 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: seem much agitated. This is nothing. We frequently have these 307 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 1: things in Spain, to which Fisher replies, in Spain, this 308 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: might mean nothing. In America, it means civil war. And 309 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 1: he was correct, because this situation, as we said, this 310 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: situation is turned terrible, very very quickly. The columns are 311 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: moving forward, trying to get to the station. They are 312 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: surround did on all sides by this howling mob of 313 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: people shouting racial epithets of a very specific time that 314 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,400 Speaker 1: and threatening their lives. We're going to kill you before 315 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 1: they call them white inwards. I'm just gonna put that 316 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 1: out there that I had never heard that one before. 317 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: That's that's outrageous. It goes to show, like again my 318 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 1: notion of the ideology of Baltimore way off, Ben did 319 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: not know about any of this stuff. Um and so yeah, 320 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: the soldiers fired back, the riders fired on the soldiers. 321 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: Stray bullets are flying everywhere, paving stones are hitting people 322 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: in the face. It is an absolute ship show, my friend. Um. 323 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: And they did finally make it to Camden Station. Um, 324 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: but not without some casualties. And these casualties would be 325 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 1: considered some of the first of the Civil War, or 326 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: somewhere in the neighborhood of eight to eleven of these 327 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: assembled lunatic riders. UM. A bystander who was a child, 328 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: I believe, who caught like a ship. Um, cabin boy 329 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: who caught a bullet in the gut, a stray bullet, 330 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: which is an ugly way to die. And slow reservoir dogs. 331 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: Have you seen that with with tim Roth that's no good. Yeah, 332 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: and um, twenty four soldiers and an unknown number of 333 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: civilians according to a report from NPS dot gov. And 334 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: on the other side, with the soldiers, four died. There 335 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 1: were four casualties. Thirty six soldiers were in some way wounded, 336 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: and we don't have the exact accounts of the degree 337 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,640 Speaker 1: of damage they received. So you know, one guy obviously 338 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: lost his thumb. That's a tremendous bummer. But there may 339 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: have been people who were just slightly wounded, you know. Yeah, 340 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: there's no real record of like how many people just 341 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: had to hobble off to get you know, triaged, right, 342 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,640 Speaker 1: And there may have been people who were rendered useless 343 00:22:53,680 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: in the war effort. But that is the riot in 344 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 1: a nutshell. Why are we talking about this riot? Why 345 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 1: are we talking about the six Massachusetts Infantry, this change 346 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: of trains? Uh, We're talking about it because one of 347 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: the people who died was the friend of a journalist 348 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 1: and poet named James Ryder Randall, also a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, 349 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: and I think he originally came from Louisiana, so he 350 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: was already super entrenched in the idea of owning slaves 351 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: and that Southern ideology that you know, was such a 352 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: huge part of this divide. It was originally just a poem. 353 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 1: It became a song when it was set to music 354 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 1: to the tune of the German O Tannenbaum or uh 355 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 1: Laura enter Heredius by Jenny Carey, who was the sister 356 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: of Hetty care And we had a we had a 357 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: cool note from our powal Christopher who says that heavy 358 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: Carey could be quote sort of kind of considered the 359 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:13,959 Speaker 1: Confederate Betsy Ross because she designed the Confederate flag. Yeah uh, 360 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: and also was married to a guy whose last name 361 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 1: was Pegram. That's weird. Yeah. And you notice Casey is 362 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: never in the same room when we mentioned that guy. Yeah, 363 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: well that's the first time. Yeah. But technically that means 364 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: he's never been in the same room. Well, technically he's 365 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: never in the same room because we're in the shipping 366 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 1: container and he's out in the real world. We're in 367 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: a partition of a room. Okay, that's fair, but what 368 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: makes a room. That's a story for a different day. 369 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: So the song, this Maryland state song is Maryland, My Maryland. Yeah, 370 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: is the equivalent of a dis track today. And we 371 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: can see through the lyrics that they're clearly, you know, 372 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: the mention of a titan clearly referring to Abraham Lincoln. 373 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: Northern Scum is clearly referring to the Union for the 374 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: invading Horde, right right, right. And Randall himself wrote this 375 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: as a protest poem, but did not originally plan for 376 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 1: it to become a state song. He was also known 377 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: as the poet Laureate of the Lost Cause. That's like 378 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,360 Speaker 1: that sounds like a very backhanded compliment. It feels very 379 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,239 Speaker 1: emo to me. It's like the album name for an 380 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: unreleased Right Eyes track. I like it. So this song 381 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: remains a protest song. It's not the official state song 382 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 1: yet and and we'll we'll get to when that happens. 383 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:41,959 Speaker 1: But Maryland is not all the sudden cowed by the 384 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 1: Union just because this one riot occurred. Right As a 385 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: matter of fact, they doubled down, I believe. Yeah, it 386 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 1: didn't beat them down right away, but the the effects 387 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 1: were pretty um definitive. The governor and the mayor and 388 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: that we talked about earlier called out for militia for 389 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: is to come in and keep the peace in the streets. 390 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: And then a little later in June sixty one, Maryland 391 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: did in fact vote to secede from the Union. But 392 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 1: by that time, essentially because of their actions in this riot, 393 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: Maryland wasn't was occupied by Union forces. Yeah, which is 394 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: weird because according to a couple of different articles won 395 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: by Michael Dresser over at the Baltimore Sun, originally after 396 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: the riot, to quell tensions, Lincoln himself had promised that 397 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: they wouldn't do that. And then that's exactly what they did. Yeah, 398 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: can can you fill in the gaps there for me 399 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:42,239 Speaker 1: a little bit? I was kind of having a hard 400 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: time wrapping my head around what happened. It looks like, um, 401 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: they had these militia forces. Um, they were trying to 402 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: keep the peace. But there was a threat made against 403 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: a fort a Union fort. Yeah, Fort McHenry. So Fort 404 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:06,159 Speaker 1: Fort McHenry. In the aftermath of the riot becomes incredibly important. Uh, 405 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 1: Like in July, the very next month, there's a grand 406 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: jury that's already indicting several people for their role in 407 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: the riot. After the riot, there's still skirmishes occurring between 408 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,719 Speaker 1: just the local police and citizens and Mayor Brown and 409 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: Governor Hicks, as you said, asked Lincoln to please don't 410 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: send any more troops through our town. This is bad 411 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: for everybody. It's a lose lose and uh he said 412 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: a couple of different conflicting things. It was at a 413 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: peace delegation, speaking at a y m c A meeting. 414 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 1: True story, and uh he said that you know, no 415 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 1: matter what people say about it, Union soldiers were neither 416 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: birds to fly over Maryland nor moles to burrow under it. 417 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: So Hicks, the governor authorized the mayor to send the militia, 418 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: you know, into the militias to disable the railroad bridges 419 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: into the city. He said he didn't do it. But 420 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: the stories differ, and Fort McHenry in this in this 421 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 1: crazy will they won't they debate over putting Union soldiers 422 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: in their Fort McHenry becomes the place for the Union 423 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 1: forces to detain people. There's a newspaper editor who gets detained. Uh, 424 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: there is a man who was supposed to be a 425 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:36,360 Speaker 1: Maryland Militias state soldier was detained, and the legal system 426 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: is getting involved, and Fort mckenry becomes this sort of 427 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: center for the Union forces and quite controversial. Yes, And 428 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: the reason that the occupation of Maryland really kicked off 429 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,479 Speaker 1: was that the Fort mckenry was under attack by some 430 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: secessionists and one of these militia units was sent to 431 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: help out with that. And then the commander in charge 432 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: general but layer of the same unit of troops that 433 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: had come into Baltimore in the first place during the riot. Yeah, 434 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 1: he kind of knew based on previous events that there 435 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: were a secessionists in the ranks of these militiamen and 436 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: agreed to accept their assistance. But didn't really want them 437 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: to get too close. Didn't want did they get too close. 438 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: He said, if they did get any closer than the 439 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: there was like a chapel, it was a mile and 440 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: a half from the fort, then they would unleash m 441 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: gunfire upon them. And again we find ourselves in an untenable, 442 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: unsustainable situation, a city largely divided and separate from in 443 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: many ways the aims of the federal government. However, as 444 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: you can tell, despite the precarious nature of the state, 445 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: city and federal government relationship, ultimately many of the very 446 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: very extremely pro Confederate Baltimoreans and civil leaders they leave town, 447 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: they go south and not on a rail because they 448 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 1: had already cried up all the rails. And they eventually 449 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: about sixty thousand Marylanders end up fighting for the Union 450 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 1: and only about twenty thousand end up fighting for the Confederacy. Yeah, 451 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: that's one thing that we didn't really talk about. A 452 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: lot of places I read there were there was kind 453 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: of a split in Maryland because it was below the 454 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: Mason Dixon line, so it was can they did have 455 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: this kind of sense of themselves as being more part 456 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: of the South. They depended on slavery for commerce with 457 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: the tobacco and and the being sort of a hub 458 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: for trade. But it was a little more divided than 459 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: maybe initially seemed to be the case. Yeah, many places 460 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: were pretty divided and not ideologically homogeneous. Because here's the thing, 461 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: who who Who's going to take to the streets and 462 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: you know, put themselves life and limb and harm away. 463 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 1: It's not the casual racists, you know, it's the it's 464 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 1: the hardcore ones, the real zealots, the ones that would 465 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: probably go on to cut bait, leave town, go fight 466 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: for their cause, right right. And here's one fact that 467 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 1: many people may miss when we hear the story, because 468 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,280 Speaker 1: of course the riot is the huge, big tent item, right. 469 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 1: But later that year, on September seventeenth, eighteen sixty one, 470 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: when the legislature reconvened to discuss the riot, the aftermath 471 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: of the riot, and what could be construed as unconstitutional 472 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: actions on the part of the US president. On that day, 473 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: twenty seven state legislatures, that is, one third of the 474 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,719 Speaker 1: General Assembly were arrested and jailed by the Feds because Lincoln, 475 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: you see, had suspended habeas corpus and habeas corpus being 476 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 1: like rules of engagement kind of stuff. Habeas corpus is 477 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 1: the way a person can legally report unlawful detention or imprisonment. 478 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: It's ordering someone to bring a detained person to a 479 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: court to determine whether it's legal to keep them in jail. 480 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: Got it, So suspending habeas corpus means we could just 481 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: throw you in jail, sort of like how we do 482 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: with you know, Guantanamo Bay and stuff. History is much 483 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:31,040 Speaker 1: more of a circle than a straight line. So because 484 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 1: they arrested so many people at once, the legislative session 485 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: was canceled and Maryland could not continue debating secession or 486 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,719 Speaker 1: anti war movements. Not demenstion the fact that they were 487 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: already under Union control. Absolutely, But as we said before, 488 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: a lot of those Zealots decided to take off and 489 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: go fight for the Confederacy. One of them, surprise surprise, 490 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: was the guy who wrote that poem No Way Yeah, 491 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: James writer Randall. He took off and went to Georgia. Um. 492 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: And there's a really great quote in this article from 493 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: NPR Maryland gets closer to retiring state song that calls 494 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 1: Northerners scum. That kind of sums up Maryland's position in 495 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 1: the war in general. From their state archives, it described 496 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,239 Speaker 1: it as walking a tight road between the Union and 497 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: the Confederacy. In addition to being physically between the two sides, 498 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: Maryland depended equally on the North and the South for 499 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: its economy, although Maryland had always leaned towards the South, culturally, 500 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: sympathies in the state were as much pro Union as 501 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: they were pro Confederate. And now let's use are fast 502 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,440 Speaker 1: forward buttons just a bit. The song, which exists for 503 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 1: decades afterwards as a very popular protest song in some circles, 504 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 1: becomes the official state song of Maryland in nineteen thirty nine, 505 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: and remained so until this year. Until just a few 506 00:33:55,240 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: months ago, as we record this, in March of twenty eighteen, 507 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: state senators approved a bill that would strip Maryland, My Maryland, 508 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,760 Speaker 1: of its designation as the official state song and rebrands 509 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: this pro Confederate anthem as an historical tune. Yeah. Kind 510 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 1: of a demotion, I guess, which makes sense in the 511 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 1: cultural moment that we're having with racist monuments. Yeah. Yeah, 512 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 1: they're getting covered up, getting pulled down by the people. 513 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: You know, from Georgia, we got a lot of that 514 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:33,800 Speaker 1: going yeah, yeah, yeah, and some still remain today because, 515 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: to paraphrase William Faulkner, history is not over. It's it's 516 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,839 Speaker 1: not even the past yet, you know. And interesting point there, 517 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: no uh nine, That was the same year Gone with 518 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,799 Speaker 1: the Wind was released. So I wonder if culturally there 519 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: was an impetus to tap into that romanticized picture of 520 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:59,040 Speaker 1: Antibell himself. Yeah, it's funny. In a place of Athens, Georgia, 521 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 1: you may know from place in the music industry with 522 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,040 Speaker 1: r M and the bf T twos and all that. 523 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: I lived there for a while and there are a 524 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,879 Speaker 1: few Confederate monuments there, and somebody, uh it being kind 525 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: of a hipstory college town, some clever, clever devil put 526 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: up a sign on one of the monuments saying second place. Um, 527 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 1: you know, I'm telling that the Confederates they lost the war, 528 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: So why do we need monuments people? Some people say 529 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,399 Speaker 1: it's heritage. It did it's it's you know, memorializing our 530 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: history rather than these negative ideas. Um. You know, there's 531 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: an argument to be made for that, I suppose, but 532 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,279 Speaker 1: I think there's probably better ways of doing it than 533 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 1: having giant obelisks in the middle of intersections, right. And 534 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,239 Speaker 1: there's also a lot of interesting stuff we won't have 535 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:52,920 Speaker 1: time for today regarding the plagiarization of melodies in state songs, 536 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: the weird in between status that a lot of state 537 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,839 Speaker 1: songs occupy. Like there there are other state songs that 538 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: have use the melody of O tan embomb right. There 539 00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 1: are other state songs that for a while had derogatory 540 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: things or at least at the very least implications and 541 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:18,959 Speaker 1: illusions inherent in the verse. And at this point, as 542 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 1: as Maryland moves this song from an official status to 543 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: slightly less prestigious historical status, we have to ask ourselves 544 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: how many of these vestiges remain statues. As you said 545 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 1: nod obelisk songs, I mean, hopefully there's not like a 546 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:43,320 Speaker 1: racist state bird or something. So we want to hear 547 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,239 Speaker 1: from you, whether you are in the US or abroad, 548 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:52,080 Speaker 1: what is a silly official thing about your state or country? 549 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,319 Speaker 1: And where did it come from? Yeah? And um, you 550 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 1: know Confederate monuments firm or again? Um and if so, 551 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 1: why or why not exactly? You can write to us 552 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,319 Speaker 1: a ridiculous at how stuffworks dot com. You can catch 553 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,960 Speaker 1: us on the social media's or we are Ridiculous History 554 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,160 Speaker 1: on Facebook and Instagram. You can check out our Facebook group, 555 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,879 Speaker 1: the Ridiculous Historians. It was always fun stuff popping off. 556 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 1: Oh oh, and let me check, let me check. 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