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• Pictures to Accompany

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• JOSEPH SCHWARTZ’S STORY

• by Carolyn Reeder

Baltimore’s Pratt Street. Note the ships docked in the harbor and the tracks of the street railroad where train cars were pulled by horses from one railway station to another. Also note the public water pump on the right.

Trains left Camden Station for the short ride south to Washington, DC, or to travel west to Frederick and Harper’s Ferry. (Today, this is the site of Camden Yards, home of the Baltimore Orioles.)

People met on the grounds of Baltimore’s monument to George Washington to listen to speeches from politicians---or rabble-rousers.

During the Civil War, people waited outside newspaper offices for the latest news bulletins to be posted.

An April 1861 newspaper article:

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• The first blood of the Civil War was shed during the Pratt Street riot.

The rioters continued their rampage at the President Street Station.