Coronavirus Ends Maryland's General Assembly-- Part 2: Arrested for Thinking Southern

Maryland Governor  Thomas Holliday Hicks and Baltimore Mayor George William Brown summoned the state militia to suppress any further rioting.  Governor Hicks called the General Assembly to meet in Frederick on April 26.

They met through the summer and then a bill for cessation was introduced causing the governor to play a waiting game until enough federal troops were in the state

The Lincoln administration deemed any attempt of Maryland to secede as something that couldn't happen.  Lincoln's Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, said that "the passage of any act of secession by the Legislature of Maryland must be prevented.  If necessary, all or any part of the members must be arrested.

The day the session ended, September 17, twelve members of the Senate and fifty Delegates were arrested  by federal troops and charged with being Southern sympathizers, and jailed at Fort McHenry using Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus as justification.

--Old Secesh