From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 11:36:06 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

 >
 >----Original Message Follows----
 >From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
 >Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
 >To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
 >Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
 >Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 10:50:28 -0500
 >
 >The events in Baltimore are one of the reasons for decades the city was =
=
 >known as Mob Town.
 >
 >mjw
 >
 > >>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/03/02 10:46AM >>>
 >	Negative on this one, Ron.  Maryland never seceded.  An
 >unauthorize=
 >d
 >group of legislators left Annapolis attempting to convene an illegal
 >secession convention but they were arrested by Major General Benjamin
 >Franklin Butler to prevent the proposed unconstitutional act.  He was in =
a
 >bad mood because secessionists had rioted in Baltimore and fired on =
 >Federal
 >troops while they were passing peacefully thru the United States state of
 >Maryland on legitimate business.
 >
 >Which is why they didn't secede.

Or, why they didn't succeed to secede.

mjw

*gryn*

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