[7]: Hanson's Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, p. 14.
[8]: According to some of the published accounts seven cars got through, which would have been one to each company, but I believe that the number of the cars and of the companies did not correspond. Probably the larger companies were divided.
[9]: For participation in placing this obstruction, a wealthy merchant of long experience, usually a very peaceful man, was afterward indicted for treason by the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court of the United States in Baltimore, but his trial was not pressed.
[10]: The accounts in some of our newspapers describe serious fighting at a point beyond this, but I am satisfied they are incorrect.
[11]: Testimony of witnesses at the coroner's inquest.
[12]: Baltimore American, April 22.
[13]: Winans's steam gun, a recently invented, and, it was supposed, very formidable engine, was much talked about at this time. It was not very long afterwards seized and confiscated by the military authorities.
[14]: 4 Wallace Sup. Court R. 2.
[15]: See also the "Chronicles of Baltimore" by the same author.
[16]: Legal Tender Case, Vol. 110 U. S. Reports, p. 421.