Fighting Means Killing by Jonathan M. Steplyk

Author:Jonathan M. Steplyk [Steplyk, Jonathan M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2018-05-24T06:00:00+00:00

Americans were killing one another in the streets of Baltimore only days after the firing on Fort Sumter. On April 19, 1861, a secessionist mob armed with bricks, clubs, guns, and other weapons attacked the men of the 6th Massachusetts as they tried to pass through the city en route to Washington, DC. The regiment in turn fired into the mob. Four soldiers and twelve civilians died in the clash. (Library of Congress)

Americans North and South found rival heroes in the violent deaths of Elmer Ellsworth and James Jackson on May 24, 1861. Having hauled down a large Confederate flag from the Marshall House hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, Ellsworth was descending a flight of stairs when hotel owner Jackson killed him with a shotgun. Corporal Francis Brownell then shot and bayoneted to death his commander’s killer. Unionists mourned Ellsworth as a martyr and hailed Brownell as his avenger, while Confederates celebrated Jackson as a patriot who fought and died in defending his home and cause. (Library of Congress)

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