1861 Civil War newspaper BALTIMORE Pratt Street Riot + Confederate Constitution

Description

1861 Civil War newspaper with the BALTIMORE (MD)  Pratt Street Riot as well as the  adoption of the Confederate Constitution by the Confederate States of America
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inv # 3R-236
SEE PHOTOs----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL Civil War NEWSPAPER, the
Boston Daily Advertiser
(MA) dated May 2, 1861.
This issue contains a front page headline and report of the
PRATT STREET RIOT in Baltimore, Maryland - the first bloodshed of the Civil War
. It also contains an inside page report of the
adoption of the Constitution by the Confederate States of America
.
The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, in Baltimore, Maryland, between antiwar "Copperhead" Democrats (the largest party in Maryland) and other Southern/Confederate sympathizers on one side and members of the primarily Massachusetts and some Pennsylvania state militia regiments en route to the national capital at Washington called up for federal service on the other. The fighting began at the President Street Station, spreading throughout President Street and subsequently to Howard Street, where it ended at the Camden Street Station. The riot produced the first deaths by hostile action in the American Civil War and is nicknamed the "First Bloodshed of the Civil War".
The Confederate States Constitution, formally the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, was the supreme law of the Confederate States, as adopted on March 11, 1861, and in effect from February 22, 1862, through the conclusion of the American Civil War. The Confederacy also operated under a Provisional Constitution from February 8, 1861, to February 22, 1862. The original Provisional Constitution is currently located at the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, and differs slightly from the version later adopted. The final, hand-written document is currently located in the University of Georgia archives at Athens, Georgia.[3] In regard to most articles of the Constitution, the document is a word-for-word duplicate of the United States Constitution. However, there are crucial differences between the two documents, in tone and legal content, primarily regarding slavery.
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