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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- FRED_181116_04.JPG: "The old freight depot, which is the oldest in the world, is in a perfect state of preservation, though long in disuse... The old building stands as a monument of the commercial industries of the world."
-- Book of the Royal Blue, 1899
- FRED_181125_014.JPG: Sky Stage
- FRED_181125_040.JPG: Union Foundry, Frederick MD 1991
- FRED_181125_059.JPG: Market & Patrick Streets
"Scarcely any possibility of crossing the street"
Gettysburg Campaign
Frederick found itself occupied alternatively by Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War. Citizens who frequented this "Square Corner" of Market and Patrick Streets saw Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia march west from here on Patrick Street, the National Road, during Lee's September 1862 Maryland Campaign. They also saw Union Gen. George B. McClellan lead his army through town in pursuit. This first Southern invasion culminated in the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam.
On June 28, 1863, while newly appointed commander of the Army of the Potomac Gen. George G. Meade drew up plans for a pending confrontation with General Robert E. Lee, tens of thousands of Union troops encamped in the vicinity of Frederick. Within a day they headed north again, to the battle that erupted at Gettysburg, Pa. "All day Saturday the cavalry was passing up Market Street.... Saturday night we were kept awake by the noisy wagon trains and such a Sunday I never spent," wrote Union Gen. John F. Reynolds' cousin Catherine Reynolds Cramer, a Frederick resident. "There was scarcely any possibility of crossing the street for the countless multitudes who were pouring through."
Future mayor Jacob Englebrecht noted in his diary the next day that he "could not pass through Market Street....The streets are chucked full of wagons & cavalry & infantry... I should supposed say 70 or 80,000."
- FRED_181125_065.JPG: The only known photographs of Confederate troops marching under arms were taken here at the intersection of Patrick and Market Streets in September 1862.
- FRED_181125_068.JPG: Harpers Weekly sketch of Frederick while occupied by troops
- FRED_181125_072.JPG: Englebrecht
- FRED_181125_097.JPG: The Weinberg Center for the Arts
- FRED_181125_105.JPG: The Ross Home
- FRED_181125_110.JPG: The Ross Home
in this home General Lafayette lodged as the guest of Colonel John McPherson
Dec. 29-31, 1824
In 1840, Francis Scott Key, author of The National Anthem was inspired here to rite the poem that honors his cousin Mrs. Eleanor Potts then the owner of the home.
Erected by the Frederick Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution and Friends, 1974.
- FRED_181125_128.JPG: Masonic Temple
- FRED_181125_134.JPG: The Firehouse
- FRED_181125_144.JPG: Capital for a Summer:
Foiling Maryland Secession
The building in front of you, Kemp Hall, was the capitol of Maryland during the spring and summer of 1861, as the state came perilously close to leaving the Union. Because secession would have placed the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C., between the Confederate states of Maryland and Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln could not let it happen.
Two weeks after the Confederate capture of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Maryland Gov. Thomas H. Hicks called the General Assembly into special session here in Frederick, a strongly Unionist city in debate secession. The state capital, Annapolis, was seething with resentment over the recent Federal occupation of that city.
Both the Senate and the House of Delegates began the session on April 26, 1861, in the former Frederick County Courthouse building located two blocks west of here. The next day, the senators and delegates moved here to Kemp Hall, a larger meeting space that belonged to the German Reformed Church.
As early as June 20, under Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, Federal troops began arresting suspected pro-secession legislators, starting with Delegate Ross Winans of Baltimore, who was stopped on his way home from the session here. He, like several other lawmakers, was confined briefly under Lincoln's orders.
The legislature continued to meet here at Kemp Hall throughout the summer. Finally, lacking a quorum -- primarily because of the arrest of so many secession-leaning senators and delegates -- it adjourned in September without ever considering a secession bill.
- FRED_181125_150.JPG: Kemp Hall, ca. 1870
- FRED_181125_161.JPG: Cultures Meet
- FRED_181125_168.JPG: North Market Street
"Now I shall see Cousin J.
-- Gettysburg Campaign --
On June 28, 1863, Gen. John F. Reynolds rode into Frederick to visit his cousin Catherine Reynolds Cramer and her sisters near the intersection of North Market and Second Streets. She would have much to write the rest of her family on July 1 about this reunion with him. Her delight was obvious: "When we heard the Army of the Potomac was really coming my first and constant thought was, 'now I shall see Cousin J.'"
Reynolds visited his cousin that Sunday afternoon before leaving to confer with his new commander, Gen. George G. Meade. Catherine prepared a meal for him, hoping that he would return after the meeting. While waiting, she and her sisters "gave supper to 17 soldiers who came in at different times asking to buy bread as all shops had sold out and they had nothing all day." It was late when Reynolds finished his work for the day. He did not return, and Catherine never saw him again. John Reynolds was killed on the first day of fighting at Gettysburg.
Confederates returned here a year later, as Gen. Jubal A. Early forced the city of Frederick to ransom itself for $200,000. The ransom, provided by local banks in bushel baskets of cash, was paid here at the former City Hall on July 9, 1864, the day of the nearby Battle of Monocacy, "the battle that saved Washington."
- FRED_181125_174.JPG: Union troops on Market Street
- FRED_181125_176.JPG: Storm and Shipley
- FRED_181125_186.JPG: Francis Scott Key
- FRED_181125_188.JPG: The Frederick Trust Company
- FRED_181125_197.JPG: 1776 1976
- FRED_181125_204.JPG: Civil War Hospital Center
- Wikipedia Description: Frederick, Maryland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick is the county seat of Frederick County, Maryland, USA.
As of the 2006 census estimates, the city has a total population of 58,882, making it the third largest incorporated area in Maryland. Frederick is home to Frederick Municipal Airport (FDK), which primarily accommodates general aviation traffic, and to the U.S. Army's Fort Detrick, the largest employer in the county. Frederick is also home to BP Solar, which is the second largest employer in the county and one of the largest solar panel factories in the country.
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